The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal election interference case shut down a bid by the former president to set his trial more than two-and-a-half years away.
“This case is not going to trial in 2026,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said in a hearing Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., NBC News reported.
But the judge also said that she would reject a proposal by federal prosecutors to bring the case to trial in less than five months.
These are state level charges, right? If he won reelection for president he could not pardon a state level conviction. Only the governor of a state can do that, which is still likely. What moving the trial would do is create a conflict for sentencing a sitting president.
This is the guy who said he could declassify documents using his mind. Whether it’s legal or not, he’ll say he pardoned himself and his legion of terrorists will use that as justification to continue to act like they’re the good guys.
Incidentally, at least for the Georgia charges not even the governor can pardon him.
As a technically, he can, but only after time has been served. In Trump’s case, that would probably mean posthumously.
Isn’t there a board that does pardons in Georgia?
I thought it was the governor, but I’m not certain, you could be right.
This is a federal trial.
And while some governors can pardon convictions, the governor of Georgia cannot. There is a Georgia state board that can issue a pardon, but only after a sentence has been served.
Isn’t it insane event there are so many concurrent trials Etc going on state and federal for a former president that it’s genuinely hard to keep track of them all. And his cult are ready to elect him again.
This particular trial is for the federal charges in DC.
Oh, my fault. You’re right. This is my mistake for getting confused about multiple trials.
Pretty crazy that it’s hard to keep a former president’s federal crimes trials straight. And the guy is still leading by far in the Republican primaries. Less than ten years ago, Howard Dean’s campaign basically ended because people thought his enthusiastic yell was weird. Now we have a mess of people saying they’d still vote for Trump even if he’s found guilty. It blows my mind.
I remember when Dan Quayle misspelled potato.
Simpler times
Yeah. Right there with ya. It’s genuinely horrifying (to sane people) what a few decades of mind rotting propaganda from right wing media can accomplish.
Creating Fox News was definitely one of the most successful strategies ever concocted. Too bad for the country that the goals were so awful.
The judge referenced in this article is for one of the federal trials. He does have charges in Georgia that he wouldn’t be able to pardon, but who knows how that would go down… leading the nation from a Fulton country correctional facility doesn’t sound like fun.
I don’t trust any of these assholes. They can pull a lot of tricks. Corruption is innate to them