Fox News analyst hits Trump with bad news: Supreme Court immunity case 'favors Jack Smith'

Fox News analyst hits Trump with bad news: Supreme Court immunity case 'favors Jack Smith'
Jack Smith, Donald Trump (Smith photo by Robin Van Lonkhuijsen for AFP/ Trump by Saul Loeb for AFP)

Fox News judicial contributor Jonathan Turley said special counsel Jack Smith will likely prevail against Donald Trump at the Supreme Court.

During an interview on Tuesday, Fox News host Harris Faulkner asked Turley about Trump's bid to dismiss his election interference case based on presidential immunity.

"The Trump legal team is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a recent ruling that denied him blanket immunity for alleged crimes committed as president," Faulkner explained. "And this could delay his trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election."

"Well, the court, of course, has already rejected this urgency of special counsel Smith once," Turley noted.

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Turley said the court of appeals had forced Trump to take his case directly to the Supreme Court.

"I think Trump has a good argument procedurally," he remarked. "I think it is unfair that he should not be given that same opportunity."

"Where it's going to have trouble, I think, is on the immunity claim. It's very sweeping," the Fox News contributor continued. "And I expect that there are going to be justices, including some on the right, who are skeptical of those claims."

"And what does that mean ultimately for Trump?" Faulkner wondered.

Turley argued there were two aspects to the appeal.

"One is the merits, where I think that it favors Jack Smith with the Supreme Court," he explained. "The other is schedule. Smith is really sort of unyielding and trying to get this thing tried to get Trump convicted before the election."

"Once you're past the summer, you're going to be running out of runway," he added. "The Department of Justice does not like trials right before an election."

Watch the video below from Fox News.

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Rick Jackson is running to be the Republican nominee for governor in Georgia — but his wife may have different allegiances.

According to filings from the Federal Election Commission, Melody Jackson, the candidate's spouse, gave a $1,000 contribution to Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in February 2025 — a key Democratic lawmaker that Republicans were hoping to seriously contest this year.

The filing lists the donor's city, state, and ZIP code as Cumming, Georgia 30041 — the same ZIP code as Rick Jackson's 47,000-square-foot estate known as "Le Reve," and lists her occupation as "professor" at "Georgia Tech," matching her public profile.

Jackson, a billionaire who runs the company Jackson Healthcare, has faced other awkward contradictions on the campaign trail as well.

Last month, for example, reports discovered that his company slammed President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill," saying in a statement that the legislation's "sweeping cuts to Medicaid and ACA programs raise serious concerns about access, equity, and sustainability," warning that hospitals may need to "adapt or close their doors."

Jackson has a handful of endorsements, including former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Georgia House Speaker Pro Tempore Jan Jones, and former NFL quarterback Fran Tarkenton.

However, he faces a crowded field of challengers, including state Attorney General Chris Carr and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Perhaps his most notable challenger is Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who has the endorsement of President Donald Trump himself.

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CNN commentator Ana Navarro criticized President Donald Trump for including filmmaker Brett Ratner in his official delegation to China, citing Ratner's history of sexual harassment allegations.

Ratner, who directed Melania Trump's documentary for Amazon, traveled on Air Force One as part of the U.S. delegation at taxpayer expense. Navarro noted, "But let us remember, Brett Ratner had been basically banished from Hollywood in 2017 because there were very serious sexual predatory allegations against him."

She also emphasized that his name appears throughout the Epstein files due to his association with the disgraced financier.

Navarro expressed particular concern over Ratner being possibly "brought back and rehabilitated by Donald Trump."

Navarro said, "I find it appalling," and urged viewers to research the women who publicly accused Ratner of sexual harassment and assault.

Watch the video below.


Wisconsin Democrats are considering a scorched-earth mid-decade redistricting if they win unified control of the state government this year, which would potentially net Democrats four new House seats.

This follows a wave of Republican redraws in the South to chop up and eliminate Black seats in the wake of the Supreme Court making it harder to challenge this under the Voting Rights Act, which has Democrats around the country champing at the bit to retaliate.

According to The New York Times, "Perhaps no state holds greater potential for a dramatic partisan swing in its congressional map than Wisconsin, a perpetual battleground state where Democrats are now eagerly eying the prospect of flipping a 6-to-2 Republican map on its head in time for 2028. 'Tempering our ambitions is not something we here at the Democratic Party of Wisconsin are known for,' said Devin Remiker, the state party chairman, who believes a 6-2 Democratic map is doable. 'Aim for the stars, land in the clouds.'"

Democrats have already been hoping that the state's liberal Supreme Court majority would overturn the current GOP gerrymander and force a redraw of a fair map that gives each party four seats. However, that is almost certainly off the table for 2026 due to the time constraints of such litigation.

Wisconsin is one of the few swing states where such a redraw is potentially possible; for years, Republicans enjoyed strong supermajorities in the legislature due to those districts also being heavily gerrymandered, but the liberal Supreme Court majority, first elected in 2023, forced those maps to be redrawn, significantly boosting the chances Democrats could win unified control in November.

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