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2 verified reports published on December 27, 2023.
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Trump got to celebrate a ballot fight win in one state and spin another courtroom filing as persecution. But the day’s real throughline was uglier for him: the cases against him were still moving, still constraining him, and still forcing judges and prosecutors to decide how much of his political mythology the jury gets to hear.
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Special counsel prosecutors asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to bar Trump from raising a list of political and other irrelevant arguments at trial in the Jan. 6 case. The filing came Dec. 27, 2023, while the case was paused during his immunity appeal and after it had been set for trial on March 4, 2024.
The Michigan Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge seeking to kick Donald Trump off the state’s 2024 primary ballot, giving him a short-term win after Colorado’s high court had just taken the opposite view. That is not the same thing as clearing him on the merits. It simply kicks the harder constitutional question down the road, while the broader Section 3 fight keeps heading toward the U.S. Supreme Court.