How Jack Smith Outsmarted the Supreme Court

Special Counsel Jack Smith ’s recent filing to the D.C. District Court in the Trump v. U.S. presidential-immunity case fleshes out and sharpens the evidence of Donald Trump's sprawling criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election.

David Gergen : The Supreme Court's conservative majority showed once again that it was intent on immunizing one president in particular: Donald Trump .

Gergen says the Supreme Court delayed the trial until after the November 2024 election.

David Rothkopf : Trump was the head of an entirely private criminal plot as a candidate to overthrow the election, hatched months before the election itself.

He says the Framers of the Constitution deliberately precluded the executive branch from having official involvement in the conduct of presidential elections.

He argues that every count in the revised indictment concerns either technically official conduct undeserving of immunity or unofficial conduct involving Trump ’s private actions as president.

Ruben Navarrette : Trump v. U.S. attorney Smith recast the case against Trump in view of the Court ’s immunity decision.

He says the president's actions in connection with January 6 cited in the revised indictment is immune from prosecution.

Navarro: If Kamala Harris wins the election, the case will go to the Supreme Court again; if she wins, it will go before the court again.