Jeffrey Clark filing says he is 'unindictable' for anything related to Jan. 6 or other election subversion efforts

Source: Law & Crime

Aug 28th, 2024, 5:45 pm


Attorneys for former U.S. Department of Justice attorney Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday told a federal court their client was “unindictable” in criminal cases emanating from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

In a two-page letter addressed to the clerk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Clark’s lead lawyer in his D.C.-based bar discipline case cited “supplemental authority” for a recently scuttled effort to transfer disbarment proceedings to federal court.

The filing is the latest knock-on effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s blockbuster midsummer ruling on presidential immunity. The ruling created anew two forms of criminal immunity for U.S. presidents and explicitly provided such immunity to former president Donald Trump.

In an effort to salvage and fast-track the Jan. 6 conspiracy case against Trump – which was returned to the jurisdiction of U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan early this month – special counsel Jack Smith filed a superseding indictment on Tuesday afternoon. The new version lacks several pages worth of references to various individuals and topics that previously appeared in the first indictment, which was roughly nine pages longer than the present charging document.

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