Supreme court immunity ruling to cause new delay in Trump 2020 election case

Prosecutors in court filing ask Tanya Chutkan for additional time to sort through impact of absolute immunity' ruling

Donald Trump's criminal prosecution over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election is expected to be delayed by another month after special counsel prosecutors said they had not finished assessing how the US supreme court's immunity decision would narrow their case.

On Thursday, the prosecutors on special counsel Jack Smith's team told Tanya Chutkan, the US district judge presiding over the case, that they needed her to delay until 30 August a deadline to submit a possible schedule for how to proceed with a complicated fact-finding mission ordered by the court.