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WASHINGTON—Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan is holding a status conference after months of delay in former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case. The Sept. 5 conference is expected to focus on how the court should proceed with a pre-trial process that started around the same time last year.
Since then, the Supreme Court has issued a landmark decision on presidential immunity in Trump v. United States. In doing so, it sent the case back to Chutkan to make determinations about which conduct outlined by special counsel Jack Smith in the indictment is subject to presidential immunity….