5 key details in special counsel Jack Smith's Trump election case filing
A federal judge on Wednesday unsealed a key filing from special counsel Jack Smith's updated election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Tanya Chutkan unsealed Smith's 165-page filing, in which Smith argues that Trump is not immune from prosecution for his alleged criminal scheme to overturn the 2020 election results. Smith submitted the document after the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year ruled that a president is immune from prosecution for official acts.
"Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one," Smith wrote. "Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted — a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role."
The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. United States held that Smith could not prosecute Trump for the president's alleged use of the Justice Department to look into unproven claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. In response, Smith filed an updated indictment that revised the allegations against Trump to fit within the scope of the Supreme Court's decision.
JUDGE UNSEALS KEY FILING IN SPECIAL COUNSEL'S ELECTION CASE AGAINST TRUMP
In the unsealed filing, Smith told the court that Trump is not immune from the remaining allegations against him and laid out his case for why Trump "must stand trial for his private crimes."
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges brought against him by Smith.
Here are five key details from the special counsel's