CNN’s Paula Reid Breaks Down Why Trump’s Jan. 6 Case Now ‘Unlikely’ Before Election: ‘Can Make’ It ‘Go Away’
CNN’s Chief Legal Affairs Correspondent Paula Reid reported on the Supreme Court ruling in favor of former President Donald Trump on Monday that former presidents do have some immunity post-presidency and explained how the court’s decision could help Trump from the inside of more courtrooms.
“So at this stage of the proceedings in the Trump case, they say we need not and do not decide whether that immunity must be absolute or instead whether a presumptive immunity is sufficient. So they are leaving a little bit of wiggle room, saying that there’s absolute immunity for anything that is connected to a president’s core constitutional powers,” Reid began after reading the decision, adding:
Beyond that, though, it may just be a presumptive presumption of immunity. So here the headline former presidents are entitled to some immunity. The Trump team telling me this is, quote, ‘a major victory’ for the former president.
Anchor Kaitlin Collins noted that Judge Tanya Chutkan in Trump’s DC January 6th case has been moving fast to try and get the case to trial before the election so that voters may have all the information regarding the case.
“Yeah, and she’s moved very quickly. She wanted to bring this entire case to trial in March. Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court back in December to weigh in on this question that is being decided right now. So this case could go before the election,” Reid replied, adding:
The fact that the Supreme Court has opened the door, though, for further proceedings for for further litigation, makes it unlikely that this will go before November. And the reason that is significant is because if Trump is reelected, he can make this case and the classified documents case go away. So when it comes to the immediate future, the reason they’re framing this as a major victory is because they’re going to be able to litigate this for several months and possibly push this off until after November. Then all you have to do is get elected in the case goes away.
So I believe that is why they’re thinking of this in terms of a major victory. And even a judge like Tanya Chutkan, who has moved so quickly, so aggressively, who has agreed with the special counsel that there was a public interest in pushing this case before the election, it’s not clear that she’s going to be able to get through all of these issues and put on a trial before November.
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