If Lumumba chose to resign, Mississippi Code § 21-8-19 states he must appoint a member of the Jackson City Council to assume his duties as mayor. It's not clear whether an indicted-but-not-convicted individual has the right to appoint a successor.

A federal judge on Friday granted special counsel Jack Smith's request to pause the ongoing legal proceedings against president-elect Donald Trump in Washington related to attempts to overturn the 2020 election,

The prosecutor said he would notify the court in December about how he plans to move forward, likely the first step in unwinding the case against Trump.

Special counsel Jack Smith has asked the judge in Donald Trump's election interference criminal trial to hit pause on the process and give him a month to formally request how to move forward — likely the first step in ending the prosecution.

Citing the ‘unprecedented circumstance’ of the criminal defendant’s election as president, prosecutors got a judge to cancel upcoming deadlines.

Glenn Kirschner said that Smith "must indict" the six unnamed co-conspirators in Trump's Washington, D.C., indictment.

Special counsel Jack Smith referred to long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office.

A judge on Friday granted a request from the special counsel, Jack Smith, to pause all filing deadlines in the federal case accusing President-elect Donald J. Trump of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.