The battle of Trump’s trial dates is an interesting sideshow during the unprecedented list of political prosecutions of a former US president during an election campaign.
In a new order, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon rescheduled pretrial deadlines for one of two cases in which former President Donald Trump is being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith.
In the case involving marked classified documents held by the former president at Mar-a-Lago, Judge Cannon granted in part and denied in part the defense’s motion to extend the time limits, which included the trial .
Judge Cannon stated that “an adjournment would be considered at a scheduling conference on March 1, 2024,” exactly three days before the start of the trial in the other case Smith is prosecuting in Washington, while rejecting the motion to modify the judgment. date
Referring to the “high volume” of classified discovery, the judge found it “most prudent, given the evolving complexities in this matter, to adjust the first batch of pre-trial deadlines.”
He further stated that he could not “ignore the realities” of the defendant, President Trump, in the face of multiple trial schedules.
The order sets additional discovery deadlines, including a joint discovery status report on January 9, 2024, and a pre-motion deadline on February 22, 2024. These are the final deadlines before a hearing l March 1, 2024, during which the remainder of the test schedule will be determined.
According to NYU law professor Andrew Weissmann, Mueller’s “pit bull” during the Russia collusion probe, Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to keep the classified documents trial dates as they are, despite the Donald Trump’s rescheduling request, could be “an attempt to cause trouble for the Georgia prosecutor who has accused the former president of trying to overturn the 2020 election.”
That doesn’t change my opinion of Cannon one bit; by allowing Trump to move later to delay the trial, but keeping the date for now, he is blocking Fani Willis from scheduling her trial on the current FLA date. And Cannon has substantially delayed the dates of all FLA submissions. https://t.co/A4i1DhXwHm
— Andrew Weissmann (@weissmann11 at Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) November 10, 2023
“That doesn’t change my opinion of Cannon one bit; by allowing Trump to move later to delay the trial, but keeping the date for now, he is blocking Fani Willis from scheduling her trial on the current FLA date. And Cannon has substantially delayed the dates of all FLA filings,” Weissmann opined.
Podcaster Tom Joseph also weighed in on the issue with a tirade against Judge Cannon.
“Corrupt Judge Cannon will delay Trump’s May 20 secret documents trial to protect him, unless he has a problem,” he explained.
“If he delays the docs trial too long, it opens a window for Fani Willis to bring her RICO trial of Trump. Trump needs Cannon to progressively block Willis.
You can sense the frustration in these legal comments, as political prosecutions of Donald Trump have led to accusations that they are motivated by an “election interference” agenda.
According to legal commentator Julie Kelly, Judge Cannon is the only one who has tried to be cautious in handling a prosecution against a former president.
Kelly also noted that the classified documents case is becoming so complicated for the prosecution that special counsel Jack Smith may be trying to get it thrown out.
As I reported earlier, which was just reiterated by Judge Cannon, Jack Smith wants to keep some alleged classified materials away from Donald Trump, records created during his own presidency.
Cannon understands this is uncharted territory and will be the subject of extensive litigation pic.twitter.com/uZ00KEmteY
— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) November 10, 2023
“As I previously reported, only reiterated by Judge Cannon, Jack Smith wants to keep alleged classified material away from Donald Trump…records created during his own presidency,” Kelly noted. “Cannon understands that this is uncharted territory and will be the subject of extensive litigation.”
The balancing act between Trump’s multiple prosecutions, and the jockeying between prosecution teams to pursue the case most likely to “stick,” is leading to a scheduling battle that is less about fairness than to interfere in the 2024 elections.
Judge Cannon appears to be the only one willing to thwart this blatant attempt to torpedo the 2024 election chances of former presidential front-runner Donald Trump.
This has certainly made Judge Cannon the subject of vitriol and acrimony among those who want Trump’s 2024 re-election bid to effectively end before Election Day.
In an intriguing wrinkle in Trump’s hearings, the former president’s legal defense indicates it wants to allow cameras in the courtroom.
Trump’s lawyers, in a filing Friday, argued in favor of allowing the media to provide live coverage from the courtroom to prevent the American public from having to “rely on biased, second-hand accounts “.
“For the first time in American history, a sitting administration has charged its main primary electoral opponent with a crime,” Trump’s lawyers wrote. “Knowing that their charges are futile, the prosecution has sought to proceed in secret, forcing the nation and the world to rely on biased, second-hand accounts from the Biden administration and its media allies.”
“As a result, the citizens of our great country are unable to review for themselves what the facts of this case show and how unfairly President Trump is being treated at the hands of his political opponent,” attorneys for trump “As President Trump has made clear from the outset, the prosecution has repeatedly denied him his fundamental constitutional rights, including the right to prepare for trial and present a full defense.”
“The prosecution wants to continue this travesty in the dark. President Trump is asking for sunlight,” they added. “Everyone in the United States, and beyond, should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand and see how, if there is a trial, President Trump exonerates himself from these baseless and unjustified charges. political reasons”.
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