Judging toward the Fuhrer
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Too-ra-loo-ra too-ra-loo-rye-ay:
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s indictmentfor allegedly mishandling national security secrets suggested Wednesday that she might push back the planned trial timeline, as courts wrestle with the growing complexity of juggling four separate criminal cases and an ongoing civil trial against the former president.
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon listened to prosecutors argue at a hearing for keeping the schedule she set earlier this year, which includes a trial in May 2024. Lawyers for the former president insisted they needed more time to prepare.
“I’m having a hard time seeing how this work can be accomplished in this compressed time frame,” Cannon said at one point, focusing in particular on a federal trial scheduled to beginMarch 4 in Washington in which Trump is accused of conspiring to obstruct the results of the 2020 election.
Wednesday’s debate largely centered on looming deadlines for Trump’s lawyers to file pretrial motions in the Florida case. But pushing back that time frame could have a domino effect of delaying the entire trial schedule.
As was widely predicted when she drew the case, the clear strategy here is to play the four corners offense until November 2024, when Trump might win and then of course order the DOJ to drop the case. I wish I could say that it can’t work, but the federal judiciary doesn’t have a time clock.