@Popehat It looks to me like Cannon was taking his other already-set trial dates into account. He has, if I'm counting correctly, three trial dates set in the first six months of 2024. November would have been nice, but it was never actually going to BE November even if she'd set it for then because that's realistically way too tight with this volume of evidence. Anything later than that and earlier than the date she set would have conflicted with another of the trials, and it was entirely reasonable of her not to do that. Judges take other legal proceedings involving the same parties into account all the time, because there would be a bit of a due-process problem if we were going to require someone to literally be in two places at once.

Also, the day the search warrant was executed is certainly the day on which we all started seriously fantasizing about Trump in an orange jumpsuit, but that's not the date that matters. The date that matters is when he was CHARGED, which was months later.