A Superseding Indictment in the Election Interference Case
A Superseding Indictment in the Election Interference Case Joyce Vance Aug 27 In a Tuesday afternoon surprise, Jack Smith went to a grand jury in the District of Columbia to obtain a superseding indictment in the election interference case. Superseding an indictment means amending it. Often that’s done to add new charges or defendants, but that is not the case here. The same four charges are still in the indictment, and Donald Trump continues to be the only defendant. Even though I am still in Scotland—it’s almost midnight here and we’ve had a full day of hiking across beautiful countryside, I wanted to make sure we flagged some of the most important points about this move today. Read the full indictment here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.228.0_1.pdf What’s new? It will take a while to do a precise line-by-line comparison of the new and old indictments, but a big difference kicks in right at the top of the new indictment. ...