The US Judge of the District of Columbia Tanya Chutkan agreed this Monday to dismiss the case against the president-elect, Donald Trump, for trying to overturn the result of the 2020 elections following the request of special prosecutor Jack Smith to drop the charges at the federal level.
In a brief order, the judge recalled that “the immunity granted to a sitting president is temporary and expires when he leaves office,” which is why she alluded to the fact that the case could be presented again once Trump leaves the White House. at the end of his term.
This comes after Smith has asked to dismiss all four federal charges against the mogul for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election. They include conspiring against the United States; prevent Congress from certifying the results collected at the polls; conspire against the right to vote, as well as obstruct the certification of the minutes.
Likewise, Smith has asked to drop charges against Trump for negligence in the use of confidential documents after Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the case alleging that his appointment was unconstitutional, a decision that was appealed.
Although this step gives Trump free rein to take office as president in January, the magnate is still accused at the state level along with 18 other people of trying to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in the state of Georgia.
On the other hand, the reading of the sentence for the falsification of documents to hide a payment to the former porn actress ‘Stormy Daniels’ has been postponed ‘sine die’. Trump was convicted last April on a total of 34 charges.
A prosecutor resigns before the inauguration
Damian Williams, the federal prosecutor who oversaw the convictions of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, who pleaded guilty to 16 charges for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, announced Monday that he is leaving his position for the Southern District of New York before of Trump’s inauguration.
Williams, also in charge of other cases such as that of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for defrauding and stealing billions of dollars from clients of the cryptocurrency platform) was appointed by the president of the United States, Joe Biden, in 2021. Former President Trump announced in early November that he would appoint the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, to the position, according to the American television network NBC News.
