Special counsel Jack Smith filed a 36-page superseding indictment against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, a new document based on a more refined set of allegedly criminal acts after the Supreme Court ruled Trump was immune from prosecution for some of the conduct included in the previous 45-page indictment.
In a notice to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Smith said that the indictment was filed “by a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case” and outlines the same four charges related to his attempt to overturn Biden’s 2020 election win.
Trump is no longer accused of trying to force his Justice Department to conduct sham election fraud investigations and to urge state legislators to meet and choose fraudulent electors over legitimate ones. The Supreme Court ruled that interactions between a president and his Justice Department would be considered an official presidential act that is immune from prosecution.
The Supreme Court ruling and the revisions of the case therefore remove Jeffrey Clark, former DOJ official, from the indictment.
Former White House attorney Ty Cobb suggested on Tuesday that Trump would not see the indictment “seriously until the final gavel comes down…. when jurors come back and say ‘guilty,’ and he actually gets sentenced,” during an interview with Erin Burnett on CNN.
There is a link below that compares the details of the original indictment to the superceding indictment, by Allison Gill, podcaster and veteran.
