A year that began with the prospect of a federal court reckoning for Donald Trump will conclude without any chance at trial, leaving voters without an up-or-down jury verdict in the two most consequential cases against the Republican presidential nominee.
China holds large naval and air force exercises around Taiwan as a warning against independenceIn an engineering feat, mechanical SpaceX arms catch Starship rocket booster back at the launch padFrom the pulpit, Harris calls out Trump for hurricane misinformation. Biden surveys Florida's damageThis could have been a year of a federal court reckoning for Trump.
Those factors, taken together, fed the widespread perception that the classified documents case was the most perilous of the four criminal cases that he faced over the past year.Hours before the indictment was unsealed, word came that the case had been assigned to Aileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed judge with limited trial experience based not in the bustling federal courthouse of Miami but in the far quieter city of Fort Pierce two hours north.
She indefinitely postponed the trial in May, weeks before it had been set to begin, and then held a multi-day hearing the following month on Trump team arguments that Smith had been illegally appointed because he was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland and not confirmed by the Senate. The indictment was the product of cooperation, including before the grand jury, of close aides and other targets of Trump’s pressure campaign. Trump had sought to block Pence from testifying, citing executive privilege, but a federal appeals court forced the ex-vice president to appear — and the resulting indictment describes notes Pence took about conversations he had with the president.
The ruling triggered a fiery dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who said it “makes a mockery” of the principle that “no man is above the law.” It’s unclear when or how the court will rule, but prosecutors in their brief repeatedly stressed that Cannon’s order is a radical break from decades of precedent and stands apart from how judges across the country have ruled on the same question on the legality of special counsel appointments.
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