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From the New York Times, it's the headlines.
I'm Tracy Mumford.
Today's Wednesday, August 28.
Here's what we're covering in federal court yesterday, special counsel Jack Smith filed a revised indictment in Donald Trump's election interference case, trying to put the case back in play.
Trump's charged with plotting to overturn the 2020 election, but that's been in limbo since the Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity for official actions they took in office.
In Smith's revised indictment, he tries to adapt to that.
You saw Smith tweaking the indictment in very kind of small ways to suggest that Trump was not acting in his official role as president in this post election period where he was seeking to remain in power, but in fact was acting in his private role as a candidate for office.
Times reporter Alan Feuer has been covering the cases against Trump.
He says the indictment still looks similar to the first one.
There are still allegations that Trump created fake slates of electors to claim victory and that he pressured Vice President Mike Pence to throw the election his way on January 6.
But other details are gone, including descriptions of how Trump allegedly tried to pressure the Justice Department to support his claim that the election was rigged, since the Supreme Court specifically ruled those conversations were official acts covered by immunity.
Now, this revised indictment came just one day after Jack Smith took action to revive the other federal case that he had brought against Trump, the one in which Trump stands accused of mishandling, illegally holding on to dozens of classified documents after he left office.
Suffice to say, neither of these two federal cases is going to make it to trial before election day.