{"id":55735,"date":"2024-09-05T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55735"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:16:01","slug":"trump-election-conspiracy-case-returns-to-court-but-trial-far-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55735","title":{"rendered":"Trump election conspiracy case returns to court but trial far off"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump’s case on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election returns to a courtroom on Thursday, but a trial of the former US president appears remote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

District Judge Tanya Chutkan is to preside over a status conference in a downtown Washington courthouse between prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers to lay out a schedule for pretrial proceedings in the historic case.<\/p>\n

The Republican presidential candidate, who waived his right to be present, will also be formally arraigned at the hearing and has instructed his attorneys to enter a not guilty plea.<\/p>\n

Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a new indictment of the 78-year-old Trump last week on charges that he tried to subvert the results of the presidential election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

The superseding indictment retains the same four charges against Trump as in an earlier version, but takes into account the recent Supreme Court ruling that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution.<\/p>\n

It retains the same core, stating that Trump lost in 2020 but “was determined to remain in power” and attempted to subvert the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump’s case on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election returns to a courtroom on Thursday, but a trial of the former US president appears remote. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is to preside over a status conference in a downtown Washington courthouse between prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers to lay out a schedule for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2232],"class_list":["post-55735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-election-conspiracy-case-returns-to-court-but-trial-far-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}