Former President Donald Trump got some fantastic news in the classified documents case against him brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
On Saturday Judge Aileen Cannon granted the pause in the case that was requested by the former president’s attorneys for further briefing on the issue of presidential immunity which will delay certain deadlines.
The former president’s attorneys filed the request for the pause on Friday and have previously filed a motion to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity.
The proposed schedule would set the arguments for September. It would pause the majority of the case until the judge decides on immunity and a constitutional challenge to the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith.
The request for a delay is the most recent example of the fallout from the Supreme Court’s immunity decision.
CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams told “CNN This Morning” host Kasie Hunt that some of the evidence introduced in the trial, including the testimony of former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, might now be in question.
Bragg’s team summoned Hicks to testify about the Trump campaign’s reaction to the 2016 tape of a conversation between Trump and “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. On May 30, a Manhattan jury comprising seven men and five women found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
But President Joe Biden attacked the Supreme Court after its immunity decision.