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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. President Biden and President-elect Trump will meet in the Oval Office next week. But Trump, a convicted felon, faces 91 indictments across four serious criminal cases. So what happens to those cases?
Now that he's back in the White House, Trump has the power to end the federal cases against him, and the state-level cases would likely disappear as well. NPR's Keri Johnson has more.
We just got a filing from the special counsel, Jack Smith, suggesting the process of unwinding these cases has begun. They asked the judge in Washington, D.C., Tanya Chutkin, to give them until early December to offer a status report or an update because of what they called an extraordinary circumstance.
This man who's been facing four felony charges in Washington, D.C., is now the president-elect. And that runs straight into a longstanding DOJ view that you cannot indict or prosecute a sitting president.
And here's Carrie Johnson reporting. In Arizona, a ballot initiative passed by voters this week gives local law agencies authority to carry out immigration-related arrests. But the sheriff in one border county says he's holding off on enforcing that law. For Member Station KJZZ, Elisa Resnick has more.
Proposition 314 makes crossing the border in between ports of entry a state crime. Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway says actually carrying out those arrests would require far more staff, jail space, training and funding than his 40 officer agency has. And he says it's not even allowed to take effect right now.
It actually says in the text that this law does not take effect until a similar law in Texas, Senate Bill 4 in Texas, is adjudicated by the courts.
SB 4 has been blocked for months while an appeals court decides whether the law is unconstitutional. Both measures have drawn comparisons to an Arizona law that was largely struck down by the Supreme Court more than a decade ago. For NPR News, I'm Elisa Resnick in Tucson.
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