Just a reminder this first day of the new year, that this is the calendar keeping track of trump's various dooms.
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| from the Washington Post, obvs. |
Not appearing on this calendar: the pending appeals court hearing this week on trump's Absolute Immunity claim that could overturn Special Counsel Jack Smith's March trial, and indeed any other criminal trial trump faces. In case trump's appeal fails - and it ought to, considering what trump suggests is a presidency that can abuse every right and ignore every law - then March 4th should see the start date on that.
The New York state civil trial wraps up next week, after which the judge's ruling is expected by early February. It won't end well for trump, but it will be a question how immediate some of the penalties will get imposed on trump and his sons for the things the court already deemed liable (the trial was to determine the extent of fines and damages).
While this calendar shows that the Classified Documents trial in South Florida is set for May, the experts fear Judge Cannon - already shown favor towards the guy who appointed her to the bench - overseeing the trial will try to delay it into 2025. In which case, the Georgia RICO trial could move up from August to late May. Hmmmm. Or should I say Mmmmm.
The reason for Georgia's potential trial date for August is that the other trials could take weeks for testimony and jury deliberations to happen. The DC trial could go quickly as there's only four charges and the likelihood trump won't waste time testifying on his own behalf. I'm not sure how the New York City falsified records case would go, but given how it's pretty much the same thing repeated over and over, the prosecutors should wrap up their arguments quickly and again, trump won't put up much of a defense if he's not allowed to delay it.
It's the Classified Documents case that could take weeks even months, as there's a literal ballroom's worth of boxed top secret docs to go through.
So this is how we should be planning out the year 2024, alongside getting the campaign efforts out for Democrats to ensure trump won't fcking win this November.
Long year ahead.
1 comment:
It seems like his immunity claims will lose in the DC circuit, but will the supremes reject them outright or try to narrow them, which would end up taking more time?
Judge Cannon will put the trial off until after the election in the hopes that he gets re-elected and appoints a flunky as AG who will take the whole mess out of her courtroom.
The NY fraud trial won't really affect the election, just give him more fuel to his martyrdom lie. Same with E. Jean Carroll.
Which leaves us with Fani Willis in Georgia. She has him dead to rights, on tape no less, and says she's ready to go to trial in 30 days. But her case is large and complicated, leaving the opening for things to go wrong.
Oh yeah, and there is the multiple civil suits by various individuals and groups (DC cops, TT protesters, etc.) but I put them in the same category as Tish James and E. Jean Carroll.
One way or another he has a legal reckoning or two this year.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
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