CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A local Charlottesville attorney who knows the most about evidence in Donald Trump’s January 6 trial outside of Jack Smith says he’s surprised by the breadth of the Supreme Court’s Presidential immunity ruling. Tim Heaphy, chief legal counsel for the House Select January 6 Committee, says the ruling “really does create a presumption that anything a President does in his official capacity is immunized, and I thought it might go the other way that there’s a small narrow band of stuff that’s immunized but everything else chargeable”.

Heaphy said while a substantial amount of the special prosecutor’s Trump indictment cannot be charged, there’s still a substantial amount of the indictment that stands. For example, pressure on the Justice Department through conversations with his acting Attorney General is not chargeable. However, just like in the case against Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, phone calls to pressure the state of Georgia legislators are still in play.

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