Vance added that despite the number of appeals that have been filed, the footnote suggests that Chutkan is set on the start date of the trial. Some people might characterize that is hopeful thinking." "And the court says, just in a very conclusory sentence, that is not necessary because the trial will be over long before the election takes place. "It is a long opinion and we are all reading it late at night and suddenly, I think page 48, the court simply drops one sentence where it says, and it's having a conversation about Trump's request that the trial be delayed until after the election," Vance said. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama during the Obama administration and legal analyst, pointed to a footnote in the 68-page ruling suggesting that the trial will remain on schedule for March 2024 despite Trump and his lawyers efforts to delay. In an interview with MSNBC on Saturday, Vance, a former U.S. Trump was handed bad news regarding his trial date in his Washington, D.C., election interference case as one key sentence in his gag order ruling pointed out a buried footnote, according to former U.S. However, the former president may not speak about other prosecutors, court staffers or their family members if his comments are designed to interfere with work done by lawyers or court staff in the case.įormer President Donald Trump leaves the New York State Supreme Court in New York on December 7. Trump appealed the order, and on Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that Trump may make public statements about Smith. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, issued a partial gag order on Trump in October, restricting his ability to publicly target Smith and his staff, as well as court personnel and potential witnesses, with his comments. Trump, the GOP frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination, has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges in the case. Trump is currently in the midst of four criminal cases, the most prominent is considered to be the federal case brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and special counsel Jack Smith, accusing Trump of attempting to carry out a scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election that led to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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