Former President and current GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has managed to delay the proceedings in both criminal election interference cases against him — the AG’s case in Fulton County, GA and the DOJ’s case in Washington, DC — so that no trial will take place until after the 2024 election.

Trump’s legal successes so far also include getting the federal classified documents case against him in Florida not merely delayed, but dismissed, by Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump appointed to the bench. (Trump’s not batting 1000 though: in New York in May he was convicted on 34 felony counts in the so-called “hush money” trial.)

But the criminal election-centered cases remain extant, and though the wheels of due process are moving slowly, they are moving.

In Washington, DC, this week, Special Counsel Jack Smith is submitting a 180-page “oversized” brief filled with evidence in the DOJ’s election interference case against Trum

The reworked brief is an attempt by the prosecution to allow the court to distinguish which pieces of evidence pertain to Trump’s “official acts” and which pertain to non-immune alleged criminal acts.

It’s a distinction that was mandated by the July Supreme Court decision granting immunity to presidents for acts deemed official — and it gives Smith’s side a chance to present evidence before a trial, some of which may be made publicly available, depending on Judge Tanya Chutkan‘s discretion.

[NOTE: Chutkan has vowed to treat the case as if the imminent election is not an infringing factor, having written in allowing Smith’s submission that “what needs to happen before or shouldn’t happen before the election is not relevant here” and that “the Defendant’s concern with the political consequences of these proceedings does not bear on the pretrial schedule.”]