TXAggie2011 said:
Litigation about the gag order isn't going to slow down the schedule. It's a side issue that can be handled entirely separately from everything else.
And I don't see how it creates a post verdict appealable issue, and certainly not one that would warrant reversing a jury's decision, but please explain if you think I'm missing something there
What you are missing are the First Amendment of the federal Constitution, DOJ procedures about actively interfering with elections, malicious prosecution, Presidential immunity for acts done while in office to start.
Understand your preference is to hang Trump by his balls from the nearest yardarm but that is not mine. Mine is the law and how it is applied, irrespective of who the defendant is. Due process for all. Equal protection.
As Comey famously said, "no reasonable prosecutor" would bring such a case but Hillary was unquestionably guilty, just really stupid and should walk, according to him.
A large part of me really wants all of those issues settled, to set the ground rules going forward. The other part of me just wants the 2024 election to proceed normally, Not that that is even possible anymore. What a cluster this is.