Supreme Court agrees to weigh Trump’s criminal immunity in historic case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up whether former President Trump can be criminally prosecuted over his efforts to overturn his 2020 re-election loss, setting up a historic case that tests the limits of presidential immunity.
The justices’ order keeps Trump’s Jan. 6 criminal trial proceedings on hold, for now, but it hands a win to Special Counsel Jack Smith by keeping alive a pathway for his prosecution to reach a jury before the 2024 presidential election.