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US Person has been posting for months that Team Crazy and their obnoxious leader use every trick in the law book to extract more delay from the system. The Special Master gambit is a prime example. Trumpilini even resorted to using his servant's lack of a local attorney to screw a three more weeks out of the judge in the Mar-a-Lago Papers case. The repeated use of delay tactics were confirmed beyond doubt this week when Trump lawyers requested an indefinite delay in the case until all substantive motions have been decided. Of course the DOJ filed an objection to the request citing the Speedy Trial Act, which requires a date certain for trial,and the lack of legal justification for such an unprecedented delay request.
Jack Smith called the defendant's ludicrous invocation of the Presidential Records Act as a defense to an Espionage Act criminal prosecution "borderline frivolous". The 6th Amendment speedy trial provision protects both the defendant and the public. Clearly the public would not be served by delaying the trial until after the election in 2024. If Trumpilini should win the White House again, it is a certainty he will direct his Attorney General to stop his prosecution. Barring that, he would grant himself a pardon. The tactics are clear: create political opposition in public to his criminal prosecution in a court of law until the next election. The evidence in the case is so strong that this is his only hope, outside of a hung jury from deep red West Palm Beach. Not bringing the case in Washington DC, where the crimes began, was a mistake. If Judge Aileen Cannon grants the defendants' request for an indefinite delay, it would be another clear of instance of her bias for which the DOJ should seek recusal in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Down in Fulton County, Georgia, two grand juries were empaneled this week. One of those will hear the evidence in the election interference case against Don 'Legit'. DA Fani Willis previously announced that a true bill will be handed down sometime in August or September. Observers think that the indictment will include a RICO count against the former guy as well as violation of Georgia election law.
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| credit M. Lukovich, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wackydoodle sez: But they is his boxes! |