US judge Aileen Cannon’s delays in setting a schedule means prosecutors are unlikely to get their wish for a trial in July

US judge Aileen Cannon’s delays in setting a schedule means prosecutors are unlikely to get their wish for a trial in July

The prospects of Donald Trump going to trial in July on charges of retaining national security documents, as suggested by special counsel prosecutors, are rapidly diminishing, with the judge overseeing the case yet to issue a schedule weeks after she was presented with the potential options.

The US district judge Aileen Cannon received proposed trial start dates from Trump and the special counsel Jack Smith more than a month ago in advance of a hearing ostensibly to settle the matter in Fort Pierce, Florida, but she has still not decided when the proceeding will begin.

As a result, Trump has been able to avoid filing certain pre-trial motions that have to be completed before the case can proceed to trial, playing into his strategy of trying to delay the case as much as possible before the 2024 election in November.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    1217·
    3 months ago

    She’ll likely be removed from the case eventually, but by then it’ll be too close to November for the Garland DOJ to consider justice a priority over appearances and refuse to appoint a new judge to the case until after the election.

    Of course, given Biden’s increasingly unpopular insistence on participating in a genocide, Trump might actually WIN the election, in which case holding him accountable for anything becomes illegal.

    • hansl@lemmy.world
      2210·
      3 months ago

      given Biden’s increasingly unpopular insistence on participating in a genocide

      As opposed to Trump’s very popular insistence to actually nuke Gaza and Ukraine, I suppose? I guess it’s not a genocide if your candidate does it and it happens quickly enough.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        169·
        3 months ago

        Trump is not my candidate. Biden is by far the lesser of the two evils. With regards to Israel and in general.

        That doesn’t mean that we have to meekly accept him being on the wrong side of history without so much as criticism.

        ESPECIALLY when one of the consequences of Biden’s abhorrent actions might be that he alienates enough voters for Trump to win the last US presidential election.

        • hansl@lemmy.world
          116·
          3 months ago

          Trump is not my candidate.

          Just like people who defended Trump in 2016 saying stupid stuff like “he’s not anti-abortion he paid for abortions”.

          I don’t care who you vote for, you’re whitewashing Trump by omission. If you actually cared about Gaza you’d rightfully point out that Trump’s politics and platform is actually worst than Biden’s on every aspect of that conflict. But you didn’t.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            47·
            3 months ago

            I’m not in any way defending or omitting Trump. Read what I ACTUALLY wrote without your tribal “every criticism of Biden is praise of Trump” glasses on.

            If you actually cared about Gaza you’d rightfully point out that Trump’s politics and platform is actually worst than Biden’s on every aspect of that conflict. But you didn’t.

            You’re sounding exactly like the people in October and November who insisted that any criticism of the Israeli government that didn’t also explicitly call out Hamas was antisemitism.

            What Biden is doing is objectively atrocious. He doesn’t get a free pass to enable genocide just because Trump would enable genocide harder.

    • Orbituary@lemmy.world
      126·
      3 months ago

      Don’t worry. Biden will have some very harsh words for Bibi right before we ship them more bombs in August.

    • Asafum@feddit.nl
      14·
      3 months ago

      I’m 99.9999999% sure Trump will win. We don’t get to have nice things in this timeline.