Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber and fresh from the Supreme Court we begin with

breaking news. The United States Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump's attempt to delay or end the trial scheduled by the Justice Department and Special Counsel Jack Smith for his January 6th conduct.

By shorthand, you may have heard this called the immunity case.

What we have new, just within the last hour, is the Supreme Court deciding to weigh in, to take

the case to delay the trial as we will get

into tonight that's not something they have to do but it's something they have the

legal authority to do and it's something they are doing so the court is

granting this cert this review late today.

And they're giving a calendar, which we're going to get into

because it has huge repercussions for the court,

for the country, potentially for the election,

and for whether or not prosecutors and our FBI and Justice Department can patrol efforts

to overthrow American democracy to stage coups.

The court says it will take this case and hear the arguments the week of April 22nd.

This means no matter what, we know something tonight, we didn't know last night,

the Jack Smith scheduled coup trial and his victories because he's won, not one, but two basic hearings about whether or not

presidents have immunity when they leave office, both the trial judge and the appeals court

unanimously said they don't.

But having won those earlier scuffles

on this immunity issue, his trial of former President

Trump is now delayed, if not potentially,

mooted until the election.

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