The US Supreme Court docket on Wednesday agreed to listen to Trump’s presidential immunity declare in Particular Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 case in Washington, DC.
The excessive court docket will hear oral arguments on an expedited schedule the week of April 22 and determine by the tip of the time period in June or sooner.
Decide Tanya Chutkan postponed the March 4 trial date indefinitely as Trump’s immunity argument makes its method via the courts.
Earlier this month President Trump requested the US Supreme Court docket to pause the immunity ruling in Jack Smith’s January 6 case in DC.
A federal appeals court docket stacked with Biden judges beforehand denied Trump immunity in Jack Smith’s DC case.
The three-judge panel for the DC Circuit Court docket of Appeals dominated on Trump immunity claims: Florence Pan (Biden appointee), Michelle Childs (Biden appointee), and Karen Henderson (George W. Bush appointee).
“We have now balanced former President Trump’s asserted pursuits in govt immunity in opposition to the important public pursuits that favor permitting this prosecution to proceed,” the three-judge panel wrote.
“We conclude that ‘considerations of public coverage, particularly as illuminated by our historical past and the construction of our authorities’ compel the rejection of his declare of immunity on this case,” they wrote.