reporting to special counsel jack smith will square off in front of a three-judge pam of the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. at issue whether trump has immunity for conduct he undertook as president or cannot otherwise face prosecution because it would represent double jeopardy. that s the legal issue. but what s most important here is the timing. trial court judge has determined she can t move forward until this issue is resolved. she entered an order on december 13 saying trump s appeal automatically stays any further proceedings that would otherwise move the case toward trial. but that stay could be lifted after the outcome of tuesday s argument. for sure, the losing side is going to appeal to the supreme court after perhaps first asking for the first court of the appellate court to hear the matter on bond. the losing party has 90 days to ask for supreme court review. as i detailed before, smith is eager to get trump tried before the election. trump, on the other ha
if the court of appeals issues the mandate, that means the case goes back down to the judge, which would free her up to begin carry ing on with pretrial proceedings. first of all, will the court of appeals issue a mandate? and if they do, donald trump is going to fight that. he s going to say, no, i get a chance to go to the supreme court. everything should remainstayed. pepding the outcome of my final appeal up to the supreme court. so that s another really make or break decision point. at what point do we get so clo ez to the election the doj says it s 60 or 90 days, it s never been clear, we have our own internal guideline and we don t think this case ought to be tried so close to the general election. so doj has a long standing policy and practice of not
threat and the information will follow later. we know the area around the shooting, this is near the light rail yard, is locked down to include a middle school nearby, they re in a state of lockdown as well out of an abundance of caution. this massive presence we re seeing right now from first responders indicates they re taking this very seriously. as you were just saying, it s a good sign that we re not seeing the influx of tactical resources and the like. sadly, i ve covered so many of o ez these shootings, so many are over in a matter of seconds. we don t know know how many victims we re talking about. we don t have information about the shooter. we know law enforcement has surrounded that location. one other thing, they ve directed the media to a particular area. so we re hoping to get some kind of update. i m reading the tea leaves. that s the last thing on their mind if there s an actual emergent threat. look, josh, i think this is
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