The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024. Trump’s lawyers had argued that they needed more time to review the large trove of evidence with which they’d been presented and cited scheduling challenges resulting from the other legal cases against Trump, including three additional criminal prosecutions for which he is awaiting trial.
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Yeah, she’s not moving back the trial, she’s just setting the conditions to make it impossible that the trial happen on schedule.
The classified documents case is the one where a conviction disqualified the defendant from running for federal office.
It definitely shouldn’t be postponed past the Republican convention. If the GOP needs a new candidate, they should be given a chance to choose one for the sake of fair elections.
Correction, from holding any major state office either. If he’s convicted then there can be no doubt that he engaged in insurrection. That will mean that the 14th Amendment will apply. That reads, in part:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
I mean, he could probably still run for a school board, but he can’t be in any state legislature, or executive, or even a judge in any state.
Nothing in what you quoted here would disqualify him from running for office with a conviction here in the documents case.
Sad, but I mixed up which criminal trial was under discussion. Thanks for the correction.
Lol understandably
The classified documents case is the one where a conviction disqualified the defendant from running for federal office.
Unfortunately I don’t believe this is the case. What statute do you believe does this?
It’s in subsection (b).
Thanks for the link.
Although I probably shouldn’t have said statute.
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“Judge”. Right.
Sycophant. She’s a fucking disgrace. Just give her her own Fox News show and let’s be done.
You know how many cases she’d adjudicated before this one? Eight. She should be disqualified based on gross inexperience for such an important and historic case.
with this terrible excuse for a human being running this corner of the show, we will have to hope that he doesnt make it on some state ballots or enough idiots have died not to vote for him.
i am going to love watching him sit in prison should the gop not nominate him. course, that would require they have a spine of some sorts
Its fucking asinine she is not removed from this case. You can’t postpone something that would disqualify him being on the ballots until after the ballots are out. Thats not even enough time to get a new candidate when Trump finally trips on his dick.
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