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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s previous indictment of former president Trump took a serious blow when the Supreme Court ruled he had immunity from prosecution for all official acts. But today Smith and a new grand jury produced a superseding indictment which has been revised to get around that problem.
The revised indictment, issued in Federal District Court in Washington, represented an attempt by prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, to preserve the bulk of their case against the former president while bringing the allegations into line with the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for many official acts taken while in office.
It kept the basic structure of the first indictment, issued nearly 13 months ago, which accused Mr. Trump of intersecting plots to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The thrust of the changes was to remove any discussion from the indictment of any allegations that might be construed as related to Mr. Trump’s official acts as president while also contending that others acts should be interpreted as the conduct of a private candidate for office.
The tone of the new charges was apparent from the first paragraph of Mr.
