The big news last week in the criminal case against President Trump arising from the events of January 6 was the special counsel’s request that the Supreme Court take over the appeal pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It is a highly unusual move, but it’s a highly unusual case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As with the criminal case in Georgia, Trump claims that he is absolutely immune from prosecution because, he further claims, the conduct for which he is being prosecuted was part of his core presidential duties. D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled against the immunity claim, and Trump appealed to the D.C. Circuit.1<\/a><\/sup> Besides hoping for an appellate victory, this strategy inevitably delays the criminal trial which Trump wants to occur, if at all, after the election. If Trump wins, we will see renewed arguments about immunity for a sitting President and efforts to make use of presidential power to subvert the prosecution, if not an outright self-pardon. If he loses, he will blame the criminal trials as “election interference.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed, we are seeing the election interference claims already as the special counsel sought not only the expediting of the circuit appeal but he has asked the Supreme Court to expedite the consideration of the petition for writ of certiorari <\/em>before judgment. That motion was granted, and Trump’s response to the petition is due on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think that the American people are entitled to the completion of at least one of the criminal trials before the election (before the Republican convention would be even better).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jay Bohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n December 18, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n The big news last week in the criminal case against President Trump arising from the events of January 6 was the special counsel’s request that the Supreme Court take over the appeal pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. It is a highly unusual move, but it’s a highly unusual case. … Continue reading “Hoping for Victory Next November, Trump Tries to Run Out the Calendar on Criminal Cases Against Him”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Normally one cannot immediately appeal interlocutory trial court decisions as everything is saved for an appeal from an adverse final judgment, but special rules apply to claims of immunity because, even with an acquittal, the damage would be done by the very fact of having to be tried.\",\"id\":\"9285d726-dbd6-4aff-aabe-efdc88d31207\"}]"},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}