Trump’s Legal Jeopardy Is Rising Along With Kamala Harris’s Political Fortunes

If the vice president wins the White House, the 45th president’s chances of a conviction will spike.

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Vice President Harris on July 22, 2024, and President Trump on July 26, 2024. AP

The return on Friday by the Supreme Court of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 case to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — which immediately passed it on to Judge Tanya Chutkan — throws into sharp relief the legal stakes of November’s election.

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