Jack Smith To Batter Trump With Evidentiary Hearings

After the US Supreme Court issued its recent ruling protecting Donald Trump from some of the charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith related to the 2020 election, legal analysts predict it is still possible to have some hearings before the November election, Sarah K. Burris reported for Raw Story.

Despite the timeline challenges with motions, an evidentiary hearing could expose a lot of information against Trump to the public. I Photo: Kosovo Specialist Chamber

Speaking to MSNBC, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg and legal analyst Anthony Coley said that, despite the timeline challenges with motions, an evidentiary hearing could expose a lot of information against Trump for the public.

At the same time, Greenberg said that Trump faces a timeline problem in a number of cases he thinks he can overturn or eliminate entirely.

The hush money case in which he was convicted of 34 criminal charges, for example, took place before Trump was president, but he is still pressing to have the verdict dismissed because of his “immunity” but he was still a private citizen when he committed those acts for which he was convicted in New York.

He won’t get his wish.

The legal experts argued that the cases that Smith is overseeing — the election interference case and the classified documents one — are not dead either. "One, it should happen before the election," said Greenberg, though she said it as more of a demand than with anticipation.

"Jack Smith should get moving. Two, I think it should be very illuminating. I think he should hold nothing back," she encouraged Smith. 

"There are four buckets of conduct that are still very much on the table. And frankly, it was very surprising that the SC didn't just say it is private conduct. You got the conversations between former President Trump and Mike Pence, which are about his role, not as an executive branch function, but as the vice president of the senate and the certification of counting electoral votes."