A federal judge on has granted a request by Special Counsel Jack Smith to pause the case against Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In a filing with District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presides over the case, Smith notes that Trump won the White House race this week and will be inaugurated as president on January 20, 2025.
He asks Chutkan to vacate the filing deadlines in the case “to afford the government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward consistent with Department of Justice policy.”
Chutkan grants Smith’s request without comment.
The Justice Department has a long-standing policy of not prosecuting a sitting president.
Smith says he would file a status report with the court by December 2.
Trump is accused of conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding — the session of Congress called to certify Joe Biden’s win, which was violently attacked on January 6, 2021, by a mob of the former president’s supporters.
Trump is also accused of seeking to disenfranchise US voters with his false claims that he won the 2020 election.
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