Special Counsel Jack Smith filed a supplemental indictment in the case prosecuting former President Trump for attempting to overturn the 2020 election following the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, maintaining the same charges but changing some elements of the case.
Tuesday's filing came after Smith presented the case against the former president to a second grand jury that had not previously heard the case, which also concluded that the charges against the president were meritorious.
The indictment is the special counsel's response to the Supreme Court's ruling earlier this summer that Trump and other former senior presidential officials retain broad immunity for core acts they took as president and are presumptively immune from other acts allegedly committed while in office.
The motion removed former Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark as an unnamed, unindicted co-conspirator in the case, reflecting a specific Supreme Court instruction that conversations between President Trump and Justice Department officials are protected from prosecution.
Trump was prepared to appoint Clark as acting attorney general to investigate baseless claims of election fraud.
The filing also moves up by one day the date that prosecutors allege the conspiracy to keep Trump in office began: Nov. 13, 2020.
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