Trump's team pushes to scrap his Jan. 6 indictment one day after Jack Smith's evidence dump | 3 Oct 2024 | Former President Donald Trump’s legal team forged ahead with its bid to toss out the four-count 2020 election subversion indictment against him, just one day after prosecutors' scathing evidence dump against him was unsealed. Trump's team cited a June ruling from the Supreme Court in Fischer v. United States that curtailed the scope of the obstruction of an official proceeding charge used in the indictment against him. "The Superseding Indictment stretches generally applicable statutes beyond their breaking point based on false claims that President Trump is somehow responsible for events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021," his team wrote in a motion to dismiss based on statutory grounds. "The Special Counsel's Office seeks to assign blame for events President Trump did not control and took action to protect against."