Donald Trump faces new US indictment in election subversion case

PHOTO CAPTION: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Glendale, Arizona, U.S., August 23, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors obtained a new indictment in the 2020 election subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday, following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution.

The new indictment dropped allegations that Trump sought to pressure the U.S. Justice Department in his bid to overturn his election defeat, an apparent effort to keep the prosecution alive after the high court found that Trump could not be prosecuted for that conduct.

(Reporting by Andrew Goudsward; editing by Scott Malone and Howard Goller)

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