(1) Yes, albeit only on how immunity would apply to some (and not all) of the charges in the indictment.
(2) The Court doesn't formally issue "mandates" in appeals from lower *federal* courts, but usually it takes about three weeks to send down the judgment. Smith may well ask the Court to move faster, in that scenario.
(1) Yes, albeit only on how immunity would apply to some (and not all) of the charges in the indictment.
(2) The Court doesn't formally issue "mandates" in appeals from lower *federal* courts, but usually it takes about three weeks to send down the judgment. Smith may well ask the Court to move faster, in that scenario.
(3) That's really up to Judge Chutkan. My best guess is 6-8 weeks after the case gets back to her.
(4) Boy, I wish I knew. But I think he's very mindful of how this is all going to look to history, and not just to all of us later this year.
(5) Not as likely. As I've written before in this very newsletter, this Court really has *not* gone out of its way for Trump. Partisanship won't be wholly absent here, but I'm fairly confident that the final vote won't have all of the Republican appointees on one side and all of the Democratic appointees on the other.
(1) Yes, albeit only on how immunity would apply to some (and not all) of the charges in the indictment.
(2) The Court doesn't formally issue "mandates" in appeals from lower *federal* courts, but usually it takes about three weeks to send down the judgment. Smith may well ask the Court to move faster, in that scenario.
(3) That's really up to Judge Chutkan. My best guess is 6-8 weeks after the case gets back to her.
(4) Boy, I wish I knew. But I think he's very mindful of how this is all going to look to history, and not just to all of us later this year.
(5) Not as likely. As I've written before in this very newsletter, this Court really has *not* gone out of its way for Trump. Partisanship won't be wholly absent here, but I'm fairly confident that the final vote won't have all of the Republican appointees on one side and all of the Democratic appointees on the other.