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MicroWave Aug 28, 2023

Judge rejects Trump bid to push federal election trial to 2026

Judge rejects Trump bid to push federal election trial to 2026 - Lemmy.world

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.

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donut4ever Aug 28, 2023

Dude wants to pardon himself. 😂

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nachommk Aug 28, 2023

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.

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FlowVoid Aug 28, 2023

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.

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Eldritch

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.