I'm pretty sure fat assed barr changed the wording on the Justice Department policy precludes prosecuting a sitting president ruling. I have no direct link at this time, but I think he did something in 2017-2018 back when shittypants was being impeached. He made it his job to protect the president and acted like his personal attorney. I'm not sure the actions of barr aren't still able to be litigated.
After previously seeking to have the proceeding postponed until after the election, the former president’s lawyers unexpectedly said he could live with a date over the summer.
Former President Donald J. Trump has in other cases taken a strategy of seeking to delay as long as possible. Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times
By Alan Feuer and Maggie Haberman Feb. 29, 2024
For the past eight months, former President Donald J. Trump and his lawyers have used nearly every means at their disposal to delay his federal trial on charges of mishandling classified documents until after the election in November.
But in court papers filed on Thursday evening, the lawyers made an abrupt turnabout. In a filing to the judge overseeing the case, they repeated their complaints that Mr. Trump could not be tried fairly until the election was concluded, but then proposed a new date for the trial of Aug. 12, almost three months before Election Day and just weeks after the Republican convention to choose a party nominee.
It was not immediately clear what led to the sudden change of heart — or to the selection of Aug. 12 — especially given that the lawyers spent much of their filing to the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, claiming that the law, the Constitution and the Justice Department’s own policy manual frowned on the idea of taking “the presumptive Republican nominee” to trial at the height of his campaign for the White House.
One possibility was that the lawyers, by proposing to spend much of late summer and early fall in court on the classified documents case, were seeking to prevent the former president’s other federal trial — on charges of plotting to subvert the 2020 election — from being held before voters make their choice.
Prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, also sent a letter on Thursday evening to Judge Cannon proposing a new date for the trial: July 8. That was in keeping with Mr. Smith’s long-held position of trying to put the documents case in front of a jury before November.
Judge Cannon had solicited the proposed new dates on the eve of a hearing she was set to hold on Friday in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., to reset the trial clock for the case. She has already indicated that she intends to push back the current start date of May 20, but it remains to be seen how much of a delay she will impose.
It has been no easy task finding time for all four of Mr. Trump’s criminal trials both in relation to each other and against his increasingly busy schedule as a presidential candidate. And Mr. Trump’s persistent strategy of seeking to delay the proceedings for as long as possible has already had some measurable success.
On Wednesday, for instance, the Supreme Court made a decision .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/us/politics/supreme-court-immunity-case.html .. that increased the likelihood that the election interference case in Washington — which was once set to be first of the cases to be tried — would likely not face a jury until September at the earliest.
The justices agreed to hear the former president’s claims to be immune from prosecution to the charges in the case, setting arguments for the end of April and keeping all of the proceedings in trial court frozen as it worked.
At this point, only one of Mr. Trump’s criminal cases has a solid trial date in 2024: the one in Manhattan, in which he stands accused of arranging hush money for the porn star Stormy Daniels in an effort to avert a scandal on the eve of the 2016 election.
His fourth criminal case, in which he stands accused of tampering with the election results in Georgia, has not even been set for trial yet and is unlikely to start before the election. And it is currently in turmoil .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/us/trump-georgia-fani-willis-texts.html .. as a judge in Fulton County considers whether to disqualify Fani T. Willis, the district attorney who filed the indictment, over allegations of financial misconduct surrounding an affair she had with one of her deputies.
While Mr. Trump would surely prefer to avoid going to trial in both of his federal cases before Election Day, if he had to pick one, it could be to his benefit to choose the classified documents case.
That proceeding would be heard in a part of Florida with a jury pool with far more Trump supporters than in heavily Democratic Washington, where the federal election case will be tried. Judge Cannon has also shown herself more willing to issue rulings favorable to Mr. Trump than has her counterpart in Washington, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan.
And while the evidence in the classified documents trial could prove politically damaging during the height of Mr. Trump’s campaign, it could be even more devastating if a parade of witnesses testified in a courthouse in the capital about his efforts to subvert the last election even as he was trying to win the current one.
As Mr. Trump went through the ordeal of being indicted four times last year, he and his legal team cycled through disbelief, anger and a recognition that he would have to spend much of this year facing juries as he campaigned to return to the White House.
But even as Mr. Trump made the charges against him a rallying cry for his supporters and sought to hijack courtrooms for his political purposes, his lawyers sought ways to delay the trials by using often unusual pretrial motions to drive the proceedings into legal cul-de-sacs.
It was not clear even to them that the strategy would work, but they nonetheless threw all kinds of arguments at judges intended to push some or all of the trials past Election Day, when a victory by Mr. Trump would give him ways to further postpone judgment or wipe away the charges entirely.
The substantial success they have had came into clearer focus after the Supreme Court decided to take up one of his long-shot legal arguments: that presidents are all but immune from prosecution for actions they take in office.
The lawyers representing Mr. Trump in the classified documents case are also using an immunity defense, and made a nod to the decision by the justices to consider the issue in their filing to Judge Cannon on Thursday.
“Yesterday’s order by the Supreme Court agreeing to review the D.C. Circuit’s erroneous decision in United States v. Trump was an important step toward the protection of the U.S. Constitution and fair system of justice that President Trump seeks in this district and elsewhere,” they wrote. “The justices’ anticipated ruling will provide guidance as your honor evaluates President Trump’s motion to dismiss the case.”
Alan Feuer covers extremism and political violence for The Times, focusing on the criminal cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and against former President Donald J. Trump. More about Alan Feuer
Maggie Haberman is a senior political correspondent reporting on the 2024 presidential campaign, down ballot races across the country and the investigations into former President Donald J. Trump. More about Maggie Haberman
Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 loss in Georgia
In Taking Up Trump’s Immunity Claim, Supreme Court Bolstered His Delay Strategy By scheduling a hearing for late April on the former president’s assertion that he cannot be prosecuted for his actions in office, the justices increased the chances that he will not face trial by Election Day. [...]By deciding to take up Mr. Trump’s claim that presidents enjoy almost total immunity from prosecution for any official action while in office — a legal theory rejected by two lower courts and one that few experts think has any basis in the Constitution — the justices bought the former president at least several months before a trial on the election interference charges can start. P - It is not out of the question that Mr. Trump could still face a jury in the case, in Federal District Court in Washington, before Election Day. At this point, the legal calendar suggests that if the justices issue a ruling by the end of the Supreme Court’s term in June and find that Mr. Trump is not immune from prosecution, the trial could still start by late September or October."
Related: Looks protected forever as to the charges in the Willis Ga. conspiracy case. At least unless she is caught breaking her agreement. "Basically, you plead out of the charges, not necessarily out of a case. She agreed to stay a witness, provide data etc etc etc. So far no one has addressed whether she is protected forever to the charges dropped. 'Without prejudice'?" Sidney Powell pleads guilty over efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in Georgia and agrees to cooperate https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=173067188
Posted Sat 21 Oct 2023 at 8:29am, updated Sat 21 Oct 2023 at 10:33am
Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro was charged alongside former US president Donald Trump and 17 others. (AP: Alyssa Pointer)
A second lawyer who represented Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, had pleaded guilty to illegal efforts to reverse the former US president's defeat in the state of Georgia, just days before he was to go on trial.
Key points:
* Both lawyers have agreed to testify against Donald Trump * Prosecutors alleged Chesebro crafted the legal strategy for Mr Trump's plan to create fraudulent slates of electors * Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to his charges in the case
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