Donald Trump news: Ruling allows new evidence in Jan. 6 case [Video]

Special counsel Jack Smith this week will be allowed to file hundreds of pages of legal arguments and evidence gathered in the 2020 election subversion and Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack criminal case against former president Donald Trump, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

The filing is likely to be the largest chunk of the case against Trump that the public will be able to see before the 2024 presidential election, and could include what prosecutors know of the former president’s interactions with then-Vice President Mike Pence and other moments in late 2020 and early 2021.

Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision allows the Justice Department to put into the court record parts of the investigation against Trump that are not yet publicly known.

The special counsel’s office has not been able to take Trump to trial in the year since he was charged, because of appeals, including a major Supreme Court ruling, nor finished its work in …