Trump's target letter reportedly cited three federal statutes, apparently involving conspiracy, obstruction and civil rights. Jordan_S_Rubin explains what that means for potential charges.
. This sort of charge hasn't been in focus like the other two have been over the past couple of years., for example, prohibits conspiring “to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” anyone “in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same.
One of the many open questions here is, to the extent Trump is potentially charged in one or more conspiracies, who are his co-conspirators and will they be charged alongside Trump? Or would they be merely un-indicted co-conspirators? Whatever charges come in an expected Trump indictment, I would expect Smith’s team to lay out its theory of the case in a so-called speaking indictment, as it did inSo we may soon learn how these reported statutes and/or any others surface in an indictment that, with Trump receiving a target letter over the weekend, could come any day now.
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