(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Justice Denialed: Previous Guy wants his DC trial in April 2026, just in time for the midterms [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-17 Trump's team filed a request to delay his federal election interference trial until 2026. This date is more than TWO YEARS later than the January 2024 trial date proposed by Jack Smith. The Trump lawyers use the median time for non-ex-POTUSs in such cases even though Trump implies he might (still) be POTUS. New: Trump appears to have landed on April 2026 as a trial date for 2020 election subversion case based on the “median time” it has taken for other 18 USC 371 cases (conspiracy to defraud) pic.twitter.com/sfULgTRp7m So ... let's not report on Trump's demand for a 2026 trial w/o noting that he wants 3 consecutive motion hearings. These motions could be filed yesterday. pic.twitter.com/ieEgVZJI7p Donald Trump in Thursday’s request to have the start of his federal Jan. 6 election conspiracy case pushed back to 2026 contradicts the former president’s own claim, a legal expert said. The contradiction reflects the “peculiarity” of the brief Trump’s lawyers filed Thursday in their request to have the trial’s start date delayed, NYU law professor Ryan Goodman said during an appearance on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.” Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the case, said she will set the trial date on or before a scheduled Aug. 28 hearing. Special counsel Jack Smith previously requested a Jan. 2, 2024, start date. “That’s right, and I think that there's a good chance that the other ones are going to move so the very argument that he's making, that these other pieces are in place, I think those pieces are gonna move, for example, the District Attorney in Manhattan has already suggested that he's willing to move in order to let the feds go first,” Goodman said. “Also, there's this kind of peculiarity in his brief, because they say that they will accept the government's recommendation that he only needs four to six weeks to prepare his case. So that's true, if it's not such a complex case, you can do it in four to six weeks, then what do you need so many years to prepare?” “Why do you need two and a half years?” Burnett said. “Right, so it's kind of internally contradictory. I don't think the judge is at all going to recognize that date is realistic,” Goodman said. www.rawstory.com/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/17/2187988/-Justice-Denialed-Previous-Guy-wants-his-DC-trial-in-April-2026-just-in-time-for-the-midterms Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/