It will be months before Trump, who is running for office again, is due back in court. Upcoming filings from Trump’s lawyers may coincide with the first Republican debate of the primary season, and Trump has a tendency to push for delays in legal matters.
before the 2016 presidential election to keep her quiet about a sexual relationship she says she had withyears earlier. Those filings may coincide with the first Republican debate of the primary season, which is also scheduled for August.One of Trump’s lawyers, Joe Tacopina, said Wednesday that he did not expect any significant developments before July.
“We understand there is an intense public interest in moving this case along as expeditiously as possible,” Conroy said.next spring, the Trump campaign could be dug in for a long delegate fight or, if the early states go its way, have already sewn up the nomination. Either scenario could provide a reason for the Trump legal team to seek further delay.
into his handling of classified material at his residence and club, Mar-a-Lago, and his efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election.that requires him to testify before a grand jury as part of the special counsel’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Legal experts said the way Bragg has structured the case could lead to further delay. Some criticized Bragg for failing to clearly articulate in the indictment and statement of facts the specific underlying crimes he believes Trump intended to commit that would elevate the charges of business record falsification — ordinarily misdemeanors — into felonies.
Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former Manhattan chief assistant district attorney, and Norman Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served as counsel for House Democratsthat there is “nothing novel or weak” about the case. They noted that other officials have been charged with falsifying business records to hide campaign violations, though each of the cases they cited involved state and not federal officials.
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