Trump can oppose releasing evidence in election interference case, judge rules

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-09-28 14:02:34 | Updated at 2024-09-30 11:39:31 1 day ago
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Trump can oppose releasing evidence in election interference case, judge rules
Washington Post via MSN ^ | sep 27, 2024 | Spencer Hsu

Posted on 09/28/2024 5:43:10 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

A federal judge on Friday gave lawyers for Donald Trump four days to challenge the partial public release of a nearly 200-page special counsel filing on why the former president can be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

In an order posted on the public docket of Trump’s criminal case in Washington, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan gave Trump until noon Tuesday to dispute the government proposals on what to disclose and keep secret in its massive filing, and until Oct. 10 to object to similar proposed redactions in four attached documentary exhibits. The filing is a key part of the criminal case alleging Trump illegally attempted to overturn Joe Biden’s electoral victory, and it was expected to reveal new details of the evidence investigators had gathered.

Prosecutors said the main filing could include roughly 90 pages of new and previously disclosed facts explaining why Trump should still face trial after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in July that gave presidents broad immunity from prosecution for their official actions.

Chutkan also made public a request by prosecutors to keep certain sensitive information secret in its opening immunity briefing filed Thursday. That sensitive information includes the names of witnesses other than those already identified in Trump’s 36-page indictment — such as former vice president Mike Pence — grand jury testimony, materials obtained through sealed search warrants, transcripts and reports of witness interviews, and materials obtained from other governmental entities, prosecutors wrote.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chutkan; electioninterference; jamaican; lawfare; trumptrial
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Seems to me the #1 item should be to determine the legality of DOJ using Smith. He's been ruled as falsely appointed so he should have no standing in this trial.


To: where's_the_Outrage?

October surprise. DOJ interfering in our election, blatant interference.


2 posted on 09/28/2024 5:46:20 AM PDT by kabar


To: where's_the_Outrage?

Chutkan needs to be investigated for election interference, malfeasance, etc.,


3 posted on 09/28/2024 5:48:12 AM PDT by Eli Kopter


To: where's_the_Outrage?

Chutkan is looking for a way out of being dubbed corrupt and needs President Trump associated words to use for her defense.

The same tactic why kamala wanted a second debate.

2 Corinthians 2:11

“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”

King James Version (KJV)

4 posted on 09/28/2024 6:00:57 AM PDT by knarf


To: where's_the_Outrage?

Another honky male hating, Voo Doo Hoo Doo Jamaican interfering in America’s business and elections. Deport her ass back to Kingston. What happened? Did America run out of “judges” and “lawyers” and now has to import them from third world Banana Republics?


5 posted on 09/28/2024 6:10:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)


To: where's_the_Outrage?

"Previously disclosed"=Intentionally leaked anti-Trump bits, to the mainstream media.

"transcripts and reports of witness interviews, and materials obtained from other governmental entities", AKA, Redacting ALL Evidence mitigating Trump's involvement, witnesses not consistent with The Narrative, etc.

Chutkan is not a Judge; she's just doing as she's instructed, to point fingers at Trump, later to be over-turned on Appeal (AFTER the Election), if a non-purchased Judge/Jury Rules on the Case.

6 posted on 09/28/2024 6:11:58 AM PDT by traditional2 ("Is it them, again, Yogi?")


To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why Smith has been allowed to carry on his charade without being Congressionally authorized seems to make the entire case moot and a waste of money and resources. Why the House and Senate Judiciary Committees did not shut him down at the outset makes them appear as useful as the United Nations.

And why censor any of the testimony when surely most of it backs up President Trump’s side? Another example of D.C. over-classifying information that actually belongs to the people.


7 posted on 09/28/2024 6:12:58 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (Space lord mother plucker)


To: where's_the_Outrage?

Love the way the headline is phrased.

"Oh look, the bad Orange Man is trying to cover up his foul deeds!"

🙄

8 posted on 09/28/2024 6:13:13 AM PDT by Bratch


To: Bratch

As always!

Then the obligatory “his efforts to OVERTURN the results of the 2020 election.”

Every writer who uses this phrase is a complete tool. They take as prima facie that all vote counts were legitimate. Trump and team never argued for over overturning genuine votes, but overturning illegitimate ones.

It’s like playing Monopoly. Before long, one person can’t be bankrupted, even though their luck on the board is the same as everyone else. You count the money in the bank and how much everyone is holding. There is more money in circulation than comes with the game. All the players deny cheating. None of them have standing to do anything about it.


9 posted on 09/28/2024 6:29:13 AM PDT by Señor Presidente (Tyranny deserves insurrection)


To: where's_the_Outrage?

A relief to know that President Trump has the resources to fight all these allegations.

Will it never end ?

10 posted on 09/28/2024 6:34:09 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)


To: Señor Presidente

Exactly. No one cared about legal votes, irregardless of who they were for. It was when you had states say they’re going to stop counting, everyone goes home and magically a whole pile of Joe Biden vote show up with no explanation, etc.


11 posted on 09/28/2024 6:38:27 AM PDT by matt04 ( )


To: Señor Presidente

Precisely. The premise of “overturning” is patently false, and anyone who asserts otherwise should be called out on it and shamed.


12 posted on 09/28/2024 6:43:06 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (In a world of parrots and lemmings, be a watchdog.)


To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’ve never heard of a criminal trial where the prosecution is making a massive effort to publicly release all their evidence prior to a jury being seated. Pure jury tampering and politics. That’s what we get from a Jamaican communist judge.


13 posted on 09/28/2024 6:45:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )


To: where's_the_Outrage?

Chutkin’s only job now is to get Kamala elected so she will rule against Trump in every way possible.


14 posted on 09/28/2024 6:45:08 AM PDT by oldbill


To: where's_the_Outrage?

90 days out the Government can’t interfere in an election. Of course this doesn’t concern Judge Chutkan, Jack Smith, or Merrick Garland.


15 posted on 09/28/2024 6:48:06 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)


To: where's_the_Outrage?

I agree. My first motion would be to throw out all of Smith’s case because he has no authority to file it. Until Judge Cannon’s ruling is overturned by a higher court, Smith is an illegitimate prosecutor. None of his filing’s are legal.


16 posted on 09/28/2024 6:50:59 AM PDT by Bryan24


To: where's_the_Outrage?

All of this is a Due Process violation. Why can’t Trump take this to appeal then the USSC.


17 posted on 09/28/2024 6:52:42 AM PDT by vivenne

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