If Donald Trump’s New York state criminal trial can start in month?
Why shouldn’t a Federal criminal trial start right after?
Why let Trump?
A Private citizen, rely on his past service as a government employee keep him from facing justice?
In a filing Wednesday evening, Smith’s office urged the justices to let stand a unanimous ruling from a panel of the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that rejected Trump’s sweeping claims of immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president. The Supreme Court’s response will have a significant impact on whether and when Trump goes on trial in Washington, where the presiding judge has already postponed a planned March 4 start date.
Federal prosecutors told the justices that Trump’s “alleged criminal scheme to overturn an election and thwart the peaceful transfer of power to his successor should be the last place to recognize a novel form of absolute immunity from federal criminal law.”
Smith’s office requested an expedited schedule with oral argument in March if the court decides to review the matter, rather than leaving the appeals court ruling in place. Further delaying the trial, the filing said, threatens the public interest in a “speedy and fair verdict,” particularly in a case of unique national importance….
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The case at issue in the special counsel’s filing is Trump’s four-count indictment for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 contest and obstructing the certification of the election.
U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is presiding over the trial, rejected Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for actions within the “outer perimeter” of his official duties, unless first impeached and convicted by Congress. But she agreed to freeze pretrial proceedings while Trump appealed.
In December, the Supreme Court refused to go along with a request from Smith to short-circuit the usual appeals process and quickly consider Trump’s immunity claims. Smith said the request to leapfrog the D.C. Circuit was necessary because it is “an extraordinary case” that “only this Court can definitively resolve.”….
Note….
Actually the Supreme’s do NOT have to rule on this now….
They can lift the ‘stay’ of any federal action and let the case proceed and come back to issue later….
A conviction in the case would make it easier for the court to affirm the Appeals Court thumbs down on Trump begging for ‘Absolute Immunity’ for a sitting and retired President for criminal acts beyond the scope of their official duties….
Trump SHOULD be worried about THIS trial which WILL proceed if the Supreme’s do what I think they will do….
BTW?
A NY CRIMINAL conviction ain’t gonna make Trump happy and WILL cost him votes….
And give the media a chance to REALLY turn on a ‘convicted felon’….