Last week's presidential immunity ruling by the Leonard Leo appointed Supreme Court conservative majority,

all but put a nail in the coffin of the efforts to hold Donald Trump accountable for his many alleged crimes

before November's election. The federal election interference case

won't be returned back to DC Circuit Court Judge Tanya

Chutkin until next month, when the Supreme Court

officially issues its judgment in the immunity case.

At that point, Judge Chutkin would need to parse through

what parts of the indictment could still be charged against Trump

and that would likely require,

and that would likely require evidentiary hearings to be held.

That would be the last opportunity before the election for Jack Smith to make

public any of the damning evidence against Trump,

including the possibility of having high profile officials

like Trump's former vice president, Mike Pence,

testify at the hearings.

The Guardian reports that Trump's team is already preparing to fight to stop

such hearings from occurring. According to the Guardian in the coming months

Trump's lawyers are expected to argue that the judge can decide whether the conduct is immune based on legal arguments

alone. If prosecutors try to call Pence or his chief of staff, Mark Short, to testify about meetings where

Trump discussed stopping the January 6th certification,

Trump would try to block that testimony by asserting executive privilege and having

pens assert the speech or debate.

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