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NEW: Judge Chutkan vowed to enter a scheduling order before day’s end. And she did, granting Jack Smith’s proposal to submit a “comprehensive” brief on immunity, including supporting evidence, by 9/26. 1/

That briefing will wrap up by late October, at which point she “will determine whether further proceedings are necessary.” 2/

Chutkan also, as expected, is giving Trump a chance to move to dismiss on the ground that Jack Smith is “an illegitimate prosecutor,” as Trump lawyer John Lauro said in court today. 3/

But there’s a catch: Since there is binding precedent in the D.C. Circuit holding that the appointment of a special counsel is within the Attorney General’s authority, Trump will have to first seek leave to file that motion. 4/

And in doing so, his team will have to explain — and more successfully than Lauro did today — why that precedent can be overlooked due to Justice Thomas’s solo concurrence in the immunity case. 5/

But returning to the immunity briefing, the biggest question for the public is whether any of the proverbial cards Smith is prepared to lay on the table will be available to us. 6/

And the answer is an unsatisfying one, at least for now. We don’t know. Lauro represented in court today that the vast majority of discovery in the case is confidential. 7/

And Tom Windom, a lawyer for the Special Counsel, expressly told Chutkan that they “don’t know the specific answer” to how much of the information they plan to include will be under seal. 8/

But in the end, the decision about what information should be sealed or not is not up to the lawyers, Windom reminded Chutkan. It’s up to her. So what new information, if any, will we learn come 9/26? Watch this space. FIN.