Special counsel proposes 2 January trial for Trump over effort to overturn 2020 election

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Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has asked the District of Columbia judge overseeing the 2020 election subversion case against former president Donald Trump to schedule the twice-impeached, thrice-indicted ex-president’s trial for a four to six week period beginning on 2 January next year.

In an eight-page filing authored by Senior Assistant Special Counsels Molly Gaston and Thomas Windom, the special counsel’s office said their proposed schedule would give Mr Trump and his defence team sufficient time to prepare a case and review the evidence which the government is prepared to turn over as part of the discovery process, as well as litigate any pre-trial matters such as the request for a change of venue Mr Trump has said he will call for.

 

The prosecutors also said that a 2 January 2024 trial date would “most importantly ... vindicate the public’s strong interest in a speedy trial,” which they described as being “of particular significance” because Mr Trump is “charged with conspiring to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election, obstruct the certification of the election results, and discount citizens’ legitimate votes”.

 

“A January 2, 2024, trial date represents an appropriately speedy trial in the public interest and in the interests of justice, while affording the defendant time to prepare his defense and raise pre-trial legal issues with the Court,” they said.

 

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[Tug]

Get her done Jack let’s get that criminal locked up!!

[Chomper Higgot]

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick.

[LosLobo]

A January 6, 2024, trial date would be more fitting to mark the occasion of two of the most significant moments in modern times of America's struggle for Democracy.

 

I suggest the names Donald Trump and Benedict Arnold will be synonymous in the annals of history.

[Tropposurfer]

1 hour ago, LosLobo said:

A January 6, 2024, trial date would be more fitting to mark the occasion of two of the most significant moments in modern times of America's struggle for Democracy.

 

I suggest the names Donald Trump and Benedict Arnold will be synonymous in the annals of history.

If there is any opportunity for US Law to resurrect itself from the trash heap it now occupies then this moment in time is that opportunity.

 

In other democratic nations National Principles such as Presidents, Prime Ministers etc have been jailed and shamed publicly in open court for their crimes of treachery, greed, lawlessness, and the impacts of the corrosive behaviours.

But, in the USA the precedent of allowing the most responsible in the nation to walk free despite the highest of crimes was set with Nixon by that idiot Ford.

[heybruce]

I'm sure Trump's game plan, as always, is to delay and appeal until he dies of old age.  But I would love to see one or more convictions before the election.  Before the Republican Convention if possible.

[placnx]

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Get her done Jack let’s get that criminal locked up!!

Hopefully Trump's appeals can be similarly expedited so that he will be disqualified from holding office, but we could end up with a Republican president and Dem VP!

[MonteD]

7 hours ago, placnx said:

Hopefully Trump's appeals can be similarly expedited so that he will be disqualified from holding office, but we could end up with a Republican president and Dem VP!

Hopefully Trump's team can subpoena the JAN 6 documents & evidence before it all mysteriously catches fire!

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9 minutes ago, MonteD said:

Hopefully Trump's team can subpoena the JAN 6 documents & evidence before it all mysteriously catches fire!

Anyone who knows anything about the law would know that in the case of such an event, the government's case would be dismissed with prejudice. So dream on. It's not going to happen.

[ozimoron]

23 minutes ago, MonteD said:

Hopefully Trump's team can subpoena the JAN 6 documents & evidence before it all mysteriously catches fire!

Or gets stuffed down a golden toilet.

[MonteD]

27 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Anyone who knows anything about the law would know that in the case of such an event, the government's case would be dismissed with prejudice. So dream on. It's not going to happen.

You missed the point, go back to sleep!

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10 minutes ago, MonteD said:

You missed the point, go back to sleep!

There was no sensible point to miss. Maybe you were sleep-writing?