Breaking: Judge Chutkan Grants Jack Smith’s Request to Cancel Further Proceedings in January 6 Case

Federal lawfare is indeed winding down, as we discussed earlier this week.

Judge Tanya Chutkan, the Obama appointee who is presiding over the 2020 election interference case against President-elect Trump, issued a brief order on the docket today, vacating all proceedings scheduled in the case, including any briefing on pending issues. She ordered that on or before December 2, 2024, Biden-Harris DOJ special counsel Jack Smith must file "a status report indicating [the government's] proposed course for this case going forward."

The course for the case is to dismiss it. Judge Chutkan's order was a result of a brief application by Smith's staff, unopposed (naturally) by Trump's counsel, stating:

As a result of the election held on November 5, 2024, the defendant is expected to be certified as President-elect on January 6, 2025, and inaugurated on January 20, 2025. The Government respectfully requests that the Court vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the Government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.

With Trump's election, the Democrats' lawfare in federal court is at an end — which underscores that, all along, it was an attempt to prevent his election.

What will become of the Democrats' state lawfare case in New York will become clearer next week: By his self-imposed schedule, Judge Juan Merchan is due to rule Tuesday on Trump's motion to vacate the guilty verdicts. The motion includes the defense claim that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's trial presentation violated the principles set out by the Supreme Court in its immunity ruling (in the January 6 case) a month after Trump's Manhattan trial ended.

We'll be watching.