Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Eyes are on Manhattan this week as jury selection in Donald Trump’s first criminal trial gets underway. But if you’re also interested in the fate of Trump’s federal election interference case in Washington, D.C., then you’ll want to follow an appeal being argued at the Supreme Court on Tuesday as well. That’s the case of alleged Jan. 6 rioter Joseph Fischer. He was charged with, among other things, obstructing an official proceeding.
Of course, we’ll first see if Fischer wins his Supreme Court case, and then we’ll look at the ruling’s rationale to see how it applies to Trump’s case. It may have limited impact and, even then, only on some of Trump’s charges. That’s because the former president faces four counts in his D.C. indictment, two of which are obstruction-related. The justices will likely rule by late June in Fischer’s case, the same unofficial deadline for a ruling in Trump’s immunity appeal. So if Trump’s D.C.
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