Tuesday was a giant day for Donald Trump, legally talking. Within the morning, we discovered that particular counsel Jack Smith had knowledgeable him that he’s formally a goal of the Justice Division’s legal investigation into his try and overturn the 2020 election, which implies he’ll seemingly be indicted for a 3rd—sure, third!—time. And within the afternoon, his attorneys and federal prosecutors met in court docket for a listening to with Decide Aileen Cannon to debate, amongst different issues, the scheduling of his classified-documents trial. Which may sound like a not-very-interesting administration continuing, but it surely was extremely anticipated because of the truth that (1) Trump lately requested Cannon to delay the trial till after the 2024 election, within the clear hopes of securing a second time period after which making his federal authorized issues magically go away, and (2) many individuals are apprehensive that the Trump-appointed choose will do the ex-president him a stable, but once more.
So, what did Cannon determine? So, far not a lot of something:
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Clearly, it’s not nice that Cannon “appeared skeptical” of the federal government’s request to go to trial in December, however the truth that she didn’t robotically grant Staff Trump’s demand to attend till after the election means that possibly we will maintain out some small glimmer of hope that Trump won’t be able to make this case simply disappear. (According to Alan Feuer, a reporter for The New York Occasions, “Cannon mentioned she would file a written order promptly.”)
Whereas it will be good if Cannon didn’t finally accede to Trump’s calls for, as many famous on Tuesday, the choose’s choice issues barely much less now that we all know the previous president will seemingly be indicted in Smith’s different case, and face trial in one other choose’s courtroom. “If Cannon caves to Trump’s calls for to not set ANY trial date, she now can’t single-handedly forestall a federal trial earlier than Election Day,” MSNBC authorized analyst Lisa Rubin tweeted. “The federal judges in DC have dealt with [hundreds] of 1/6 circumstances quickly—and his ought to be no exception.”
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