aggiehawg said:
barbacoa taco said:
TXAggie2011 said:
Trump said August 12 so not too far off, but also said he cannot possibly get a fair trial any time this year. That argument didn't work before, so I imagine it won't work this time. But maybe she takes their August date.
let's be honest. Trump can't get a truly fair and impartial trial any time this year or ever. He's TRUMP.
But his excuses are still disingenuous. August is in the middle of campaign season, and anything past that is election interference. So let's do it in December! Even the dumbest person in that courtroom knows the gamesmanship that's going on.
Cannon should split the baby and start the trial the first week of August and be done with it.
CIPA cases are always complicated and for that reason, take a lot of time in pretrial motions. Those all have to be briefed, argued and decided before trial can be scheduled. This really should come as no surprise to Smith.
CIPA slows cases down, but Cannon is moving the CIPA process along glacially, rightly or wrongly. She has been going through multi-week briefing processes over issues that judges can normally decide in their chambers by themselves.
She decided one of the Section 4 issues after like a month of briefing by writing 8 pages of how she agrees with Trump but finished with a short paragraph at the end essentially saying "the 11th circuit law is abundantly clear so matter all the briefing and argument, I'm ruling for Special Counsel."
Maybe it's just inexperience and unfamiliarity with CIPA law. I don't know what it is. She gets to run her court. But some of these issues could be decided in a day to a week and they're taking a month(s).