Justice Department sends message to Trump after Supreme Court ruling

Despite the Supreme Court’s decision to convict Donald Trump almost absolute immunity and with the rest of its trials likely to continue after Election Day, the Justice Department has no intention of backing down in its prosecution of the former president and convicted criminal.

A new report from The Washington Post, Citing sources close to the department, he said prosecutors plan to pursue the cases with a deadline of Inauguration Day in January, in line with the Supreme Court’s ruling that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted.

“The Justice Department is not driven by the election calendar. Its prosecution of Trump is based on the law, the facts and the Justice Manual — the department’s bible that sets the post-Watergate standards that prevented him from being used as a weapon,” said Anthony Coley, a spokesman for Attorney General Merrick Garland until last year. Job.

“Until those standards change or are otherwise decided, I expect the Justice Department to continue to move full speed ahead. And that’s what they should do,” Coley added.

The Supreme Court’s decision also placed restrictions on the type of evidence that can be collected from a presidential administration, violent blows to the federal election interference case against Trump. That change alone will add further delays to the D.C. trial, which was already underway pushed back Thanks to the Supreme Court case on presidential immunity. If Trump is re-elected, his lawyers will most likely ask federal judges to drop the case.

Trump’s other federal case involves his alleged mishandling of classified documents in Florida, where he has a friendly judge who has bogged down the case with a myriad of evidence apparently irrelevant audiencesEven the guilty verdict against Trump, his New York bribery case, had its sentencing hearing postponed, with the judge giving a ruling worrying warning on the fate of the case. The Trump election interference case in Georgia is still in limbo too.

While the Justice Department’s reported intentions suggest that it will push for consequences for Trump, the fact is that, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could escape any consequences altogether.