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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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doggle

The judge referenced in this article is for one of the federal trials. He does have charges in Georgia that he wouldn’t be able to pardon, but who knows how that would go down… leading the nation from a Fulton country correctional facility doesn’t sound like fun.