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Judge rejects Donald Trump's request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity

A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases — spurning another of the former president’s ploys to put off the historic trial. Several more are pending.

Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan declared the request untimely, ruling that Trump’s lawyers had “myriad opportunities” to raise the immunity issue before they finally did so last month, well after a deadline for pretrial motions had already passed.

The timing of the defense’s March 7 filing “raises real questions about the sincerity and actual purpose of the motion,” Merchan wrote in a six-page decision.

Poayjay ,

So now he’s claiming that he had presidential immunity before he was president too?

FenrirIII ,
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He’s claiming it makes him immune forever and always.

Evilcoleslaw ,

One theory I heard was ultimately he’d argue that the conduct he’s charged for continued once he was in office (e.g. he cut Michael Cohen a check while he was President) therefore his “absolute presidential immunity” should kick in and cover everything.

It’s horseshit, just like the immunity claim itself, but really it’s only meant as a delay tactic. Since it failed watch out for more attempts at delay. Either appealing the denial of this motion or something like a motion to withdraw as counsel from his lawyers after he fires them and tries to ask for 6 months delay to get new counsel up to speed.

rayyy ,

Delay, delay delay. He doesn’t even deny he did the crimes, he argues that he is above the law. Deep in his pathological mind he knows he is a criminal though.

Spacehooks ,

Take him to cleaner please

n1ckn4m3 ,
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Doesn't matter. The entire corrupt justice system continually gives this bozo every single possible way to weasel out of shit that no other person on the planet would ever be granted. Nothing is going to stick, all of the media attention about these cases is only hardening his support on the right. Our justice system is bought and paid for and he is one of the biggest contributors, absolutely none of the court cases are going to stick no matter how many things he may have done that are illegal. Anyone who thinks otherwise has had too much of the kool-aid at this point. Justice is dead and the highest court of the land is in his pocket. This is all for show at this point and it's only serving him and his base.

Vote like democracy and your country depends on it, because at this point it absolutely does.

kick_out_the_jams ,

Trump’s lawyers argued that the trial should be delayed indefinitely until “prejudicial media coverage” of the case dissipates

Anything concerning a former president is going to attract a lot of attention, who could seen that happening?

Fapper_McFapper ,

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