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Special counsel Jack Smith has filed a new indictment against Donald Trump that keeps the same criminal charges but narrows the allegations against him following a Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity on former presidents.
Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker says the new indictment removes a section of the indictment that dealt with Trump’s interactions with the Justice Department, an area for which the Supreme Court in a 6-3 opinion said Trump was entitled to immunity from prosecution.
“The Supreme Court said all of that is conduct for which Trump is entitled to absolute immunity, because that is conduct that constitutes an official act. And so what the special counsel's office has done is get a new grand jury to issue a new indictment that removes from the original charging document all of the allegations that relate to the Justice Department,” Tucker said.
But the new indictment does not mean that a trial in this case is expected to happen this year.
“We are still looking at an impossible scenario of a trial taking place in 2024. That's really off the table, given the work that's still ahead, to narrow the indictment still even further and determine what is an official act and what is not an official act,” Tucker said.