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Timing could benefit former President Trump as he faces down four criminal trials that are mired in controversy and legal obstacles while Election Day 2024 creeps closer, legal experts say.<\/p>\nTiming could benefit former President Trump as he faces down four criminal trials that are mired in controversy and legal obstacles while Election Day 2024 creeps closer, legal experts say.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it eventually get so late in the election-campaign calendar that it would be too unseemly to start trial? I would hope so,\u201d former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andrew McCarthy, a Fox News contributor, wrote in an op-ed for National Review on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe administration of justice in criminal cases is an important national priority, but it\u2019s not the only one \u2013 or, necessarily, the highest one.<\/p>\n
How much intrusion on politics by the justice system should Americans tolerate \u2013 particularly under circumstances in which the intrusion is being orchestrated by the administration of the incumbent president against his campaign opponent?\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarthy\u2019s op-ed was in response to a federal judge suspending Trump\u2019s trial involving Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s 2020 election interference investigation indefinitely last week after it was set to begin on March 4.<\/p>\n
The move comes after Trump\u2019s legal team filed an appeal to argue that the former president is granted immunity from prosecution for actions while in office.<\/p>\n
\u201cA president of the United States must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him\/her to properly function,\u201d Trump said last week on Truth Social in all caps. \u201cAny mistake, even if well intended, would be met with almost certain indictment by the opposing party at term end. Even events that \u2018cross the line\u2019 must fall under total immunity, or it will be years of trauma trying to determine good from bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
An appeals court is reviewing Trump\u2019s argument, tying the presiding judge\u2019s hands from proceeding with the case. Trump filed an appeal in December, with a three-judge panel hearing arguments last month.<\/p>\n
No opinion has yet been issued, and the case could be sent to the full circuit court or Supreme Court for review, which would add additional time to proceedings.<\/p>\n
McCarthy has been arguing that Trump\u2019s trial strategy is \u201cdelay, delay, delay,\u201d adding that after the postponed trial, a midsummer trial date for the D.C. case is \u201cambitious\u201d and will likely be closer to Election day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe election-interference prosecution of Donald Trump, the former president and likely Republican presidential nominee, by the Justice Department of Joe Biden, the incumbent president and Trump\u2019s likely Democratic opponent, is the most politically charged in American history,\u201d McCarthy wrote in a January column for National Review.<\/p>\n
He argued Saturday in a column that the delay of the trial did not come as a shock, and only solidified what had long been anticipated due to Trump\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n
In addition to the appeal potentially being heard by the full 11-member Circuit Court or Supreme Court, pre-trial work could hold up the trial even longer, making a midsummer trial date \u201coptimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? Because there is a lot of pre-trial work, including administrative detail, that must be attended to for a case to get to trial. As I elaborated in my [January column] about Trump\u2019s delay strategy, the pre-trial process includes discovery, motions to dismiss the case or suppress evidence, hearings on motions, and so on. Whenever jurisdiction is finally returned to Judge Chutkan, all of that will have to crank up again \u2013 it takes a long time to get through, and it\u2019s not like this is the only case on Her Honor\u2019s docket,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
McCarthy speculated whether the courts would allow the anticipated GOP nominee to languish in courtrooms for weeks as Election Day comes down to the wire.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefendants have to be present in court for the entirety of criminal trials. Could we really have the Republican nominee stuck in a courtroom from, say, August through October? I\u2019m sure that would be fine with the Biden Justice Department\u2019s special counsel. The question may be whether the court will go along,\u201d McCarthy concluded. The former assistant U.S. attorney told Fox Digital that Jack Smith \u201cwill push to go to trial in the Washington case no matter how late in the election campaign calendar it gets,\u201d but he noted that Smith is not in the driver\u2019s seat when it comes to determining schedules.<\/p>\n
Source: PL<\/p>\n
Edited By Ilia Charon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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