Trump and his allies have signaled that they intend to turn his overlapping legal woes into a referendum on the criminal justice system, casting it as a politically weaponized tool of Democrats. Trump's trial dates collide with his 2024 campaign calendar:
Former President Donald Trump addresses the crowd at the Turning Point Action Summit in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 15, 2023.
Trump and his allies have signaled that they intend to try to turn his overlapping legal woes into a referendum on the criminal justice system, by seeking to cast it as a politically weaponized tool of Democrats. But on Tuesday — the same day Trump disclosed that federal prosecutors may charge him in the investigation into the events that culminated in the Capitol riot — his defense lawyers argued to Judge Aileen M. Cannon that she ought to put off any trial in the documents case until after the 2024 election. The intense publicity of the campaign calendar, they said, would impair his rights.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen in the primaries, of course, but right now, he’s the leading candidate,” said Todd Blanche, one of Trump’s lawyers. “And if all things go as we expect, the person he is running against — his administration is prosecuting him.” Setting a trial date for the documents case is the first and most basic logistical issue. But the possibility of indictments from two inquiries into Trump’s attempts to stay in power after the 2020 election, the federal investigation led by Smith and a state investigation overseen by Fani T. Willis, a district attorney in Georgia who has signaled that charges could come in August, may soon bump up against that.
As an informal practice, Green said that judges overseeing potentially conflicting matters sometimes call each other and work out a calendar. No procedural rule authorizes such conversations, he said, but it is considered appropriate.
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