The New York grand jury will not hear the Trump case this week

An Attorney General Appeals to the Biden DOJ Subpoena for the Grand Jury: A Review of Pence’s Testimony

“I am going to fight the Biden DOJ subpoena for me to appear before the grand jury because I believe it’s unconstitutional and unprecedented,” Pence said at an event in February. He has suggested that – because he was also serving as president of the Senate during the January 6 certification vote – the constitutional clause covered the conduct that investigators are looking at.

The ruling was a fascinating development for its multiple legal and constitutional implications. It is not certain which questions Pence would decline to answer under oath.

The ruling came days after another court decision against Trump and for the January 6 investigators, saying he could not block grand jury testimony from some of his administration’s top officials, including then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

The requirements of my testimony going forward are a subject of our review, and I will have more to say about that in an interview with Newsmax’s Greta Van Susteren.

In the book, Pence wrote that Trump told him in the days before the attack that he would inspire the hatred of hundreds of thousands of people because he was “too honest” to attempt to overturn the results of the election.

Nicholas Luna, a former special assistant to Trump, told the committee he remembered Trump calling Pence a “wimp.” Luna said he recalled something to the effect of Trump saying, “I made the wrong decision four or five years ago.”

The former chief of staff said she recalled thatIvanka told her dad had just had an upsetting conversation with the vice president.

The former vice president also said in his recently published book that he asked his general counsel for a briefing on the procedures of the Electoral Count Act after Trump, in a December 5, 2020, phone call, “mentioned challenging the election results in the House of Representatives for the first time.”

The former vice president would fight the subpoena under the Speech or Debate Clause, which protects law enforcement actions related to their legislative duties, it was thought after the news of the subpoena broke.

The claims are seen as novel by the people who know them. His arguments attracted criticism from a broad range of legal scholars, including former Judge Michael Luttig, a conservative legal luminary who publicly argued that Pence should certify the electoral results.

The state of the Manhattan grand jury that is looking into Trumps role in a scheme to pay an adult film star $130,000 in 2016 was the subject of a flurry of speculation.

But no action has come from the district attorney’s office thus far, and the grand jury is not expected to consider the Trump case again this week, two court sources familiar with proceedings told CNN. An unrelated case will be heard by the grand jury on Thursday, according to the sources. The grand jury typically does not meet on Fridays.

No. Trump posted on his social media to predict he would be arrested last Tuesday, along with a call for his supporters to protest that echoed his comments after he lost the 2020 election in the lead-up to January 6.

He continued to attack the Manhattan District Attorney and other prosecutors in Washington, DC and Georgia who were investigating him. He warned last week that his arrest would lead to “potential death & destruction” and “could be catastrophic for our Country.”

Trump claimed that Democrats were using a new method to cheat on elections at a rally in Texas on Saturday.

Bragg is looking into whether Trump reimbursed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, for a $130,000 payment he made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to prevent her from discussing her alleged affair with Trump. Trump has denied the story.

The investigation appeared to have ended last week after Robert Costello testified for Trump, who was trying to undermine Cohen.

While in the Manhattan courthouse building on Monday, David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer, was whisked into and out. He was a central player in the hush money payment scheme, helping to negotiate the payment as then-chairman of American Media Inc. There is a non-prosecution agreement between AMI and prosecutors.

Pecker’s testimony suggests the district attorney’s office may have felt the need to rebut the testimony of Costello, who claimed Cohen had made the payment to Daniels on his own.

When will the FBI find out he was indicted? The case of Donald J. Jones III, who served as the secretary of state in the Mar-a-Lago investigation

If Trump is indicted, the charges are expected to be filed under seal. Trump’s attorneys would then likely be notified and preparations would be made for Trump to travel to New York to surrender and hear the charges.

There have been security preparations underway for several weeks now among multiple law enforcement agencies about how security for a potential Trump indictment would be handled in Manhattan.

Bragg pledges to publicly state whether or not Trump will be charged once the investigation is over.

Last week, Trump’s primary defense attorney Evan Corcoran appeared before a federal grand jury, where he was expected to answer questions in Smith’s investigation into the handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, after Trump unsuccessfully fought to keep him from testifying.

In addition to the two investigations, a special grand jury investigated attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Fulton County District Attorney Fani is suggesting indictments may be coming as soon as this spring.

Trump has denied all of the accusations. He has wriggled free of legal and political troubles before with an almost mythical ability to dodge accountability for his misdeeds which would have doomed him. But his potential vulnerability and the sheer breadth of investigations against him is brewing a moment of unprecedented stress for the country’s political and legal institutions.

“It is interesting to me that there is this scrum over the New York case, but I really do believe that in particular, the Mar-a-Lago case, the potential obstruction of justice case, puts (Trump) in the greatest jeopardy right now,” said former federal Judge John Jones III, who is now president of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

It’s possible that Trump could be the first former president to be indicted and possibly charged with a crime, while campaigning to return to the White House in 2024. Trump is already fanning the flames of a situation that would be guaranteed to exacerbate the country’s extreme political polarization. At a campaign rally in Texas last weekend, the ex-president folded various probes against him into a single false conceit: that the Biden administration is seeking to weaponize the justice system against him to steal the 2024 election.

But he could also blur the legal technicalities by arguing that he stood up to the Biden administration’s Justice Department – a potentially useful weapon in a GOP presidential debate. The scope of the vice presidency could have been expanded in order to clarify and expand interpretations about the Speech or Debate Clause. The latter question would have to be put in place by the Supreme Court or Appeals court before it can be considered definitive.