Key details at the center of former President Donald Trump's election

interference criminal case were debated in a Washington DC courtroom this

morning. Judge Tanya Chutkin declined to slow down proceedings in the case, giving prosecutors a chance to unseal crucial

and potentially politically damaging evidence against Mr. Trump in the next three weeks.

The case had been on hold for several months while the former

president's team argued for presidential immunity at the Supreme Court.

NPR's Carrie Johnson was in the courtroom for the hearing. She joins me now.

So Carrie today was the first time that both sets of

lawyers were back in the courtroom since that big Supreme Court ruling on

presidential immunity earlier this summer. What was each side there to do?

It was a big day in court. Lawyers for the special What was each side there to do?

It was a big day in court.

Lawyers for the Special Counsel, Jack Smith,

wanted to suggest that their case survives,

even the Supreme Court decision, which required them to pare down significant parts of their case against the former President Donald Trump.

And they want to file a brief by the end of this month explaining why Trump should continue to face these charges

and why he was acting in his personal capacity or his capacity as a political candidate

and not in his capacity as president of the United States when he attempted to cling to power in late 20 and early 2021 right around the time of the January 6th insurrection.

As for Trump's lawyers, their key strategy all along

has been to delay, to delay this case.

And what they now want to do, to the extent they can,

is control the idea of any further damaging details

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