There Is Still Time for Judge Chutkin To Hear and Make Factual Findings Regarding President Trump’s Push To Overthrow the 2020 Election
It was almost exactly 2 months ago that my previous article was published here at DCReport. At that time, I was urging that any trial of Donald Trump, in the January 6 federal criminal case, must be held and completed before the 2024 presidential election. Only such expedition would enable voters to intelligently evaluate Trump’s constant claims of a “rigged and stolen” election in 2020.
This past Monday, a divided Supreme Court (6-3) upheld Trump’s claim to a certain degree of Presidential “immunity.”
But the court held that such immunity was limited, and it remanded the case for further proceedings to carefully consider which, if any, of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts must be considered immune from prosecution, and which might not.
We are now in the second week of July 2024, just 119 days from Election Day, November 5. But the Court’s remand still leaves open the possibility that a credible assessment can be made of the evidentiary support, if any, for Donald Trump’s claim of a stolen election in 2020.
Although there may be many subtle, subordinate issues to be considered and determined on remand, certainly a carefully-defined boundary must be established as between the formal findings of Donald Trump’s administration — regarding vote totals and any alleged fraud — and the unofficial, rogue, acts of the President, operating in a clearly unofficial capacity, as a lead conspirator in the effort to overturn a well-supported, and thus valid election result, as determined by the appropriate agencies of the federal and state government.
Now, clearly, no additional delay can be countenanced. Something like 150 million American voters have an urgent need to finally know whether Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” is true or false.
And the necessary remand hearing is the best forum to do so — especially in light of the more than six months of previous delay in the case, presided over by the Supreme Court itself, beginning in December of 2023.
So we say again: THERE IS STILL TIME! If any further unwarranted, counterproductive delay can be avoided!!
There is still time for Judge Chutkin to hear and make factual findings regarding former President Trump’s unofficial, actionable, criminal efforts to corruptly but baselessly purport to reverse the well-established and documented outcome of the 2020 presidential election — and to make such findings in order to guide voters well before November 5!
