Donald Trump looks to be a busy man next year:
Busy calendar (per @cnn): pic.twitter.com/sqhxijdP2S
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) August 28, 2023
This is an impressive graphic, and I don't blame CNN for running it. At the same time, complex federal trials never begin on time—and they're really not going to begin on time in these cases. Trump's lawyers are going to flood the courts with motions for this and that, and many of them will be granted. I'll be surprised if any of these trials begin before summer.
Trump is so ‘eager’ to prove his innocence that he will try to delay his multiple trials for as long as possible….
A couple of weeks before the trial Trump will fire his attorneys. His new attorneys will need time to familiarize themselves with the case and evidence. It will take a few months….
I have it on the authority of attorneys who work in Federal courts that judges do not allow this, it turns out. If there is a change of attorney at a late date, the new person must avow to the court that they are all prepped and ready to go.
Not that they won't try other stuff to delay.
How does that work if they aren’t “prepped and ready to go”?
I would say it means Trump will have to dance with the one who brung ya.
And if he or they refuse?
I suppose the trial would start without them
As fate would have it Bluto Barksalot doesn't have the sharpest lawyers on Earth, and they may end up spoiling for a fight imagining they can easily prove whatever great idea du jure that psycho has them believing they can prove.
Trump's plan for Georgia is to have Republican-appointed officials on the new PAQC remove DA Fani Willis and poof! Trump's schedule is suddenly freed up. "There’s a one-hundred percent chance that’s going to happen," according to a Georgia State law professor.
Maybe. I'm not so sure it'll happen that way. But let's say it does. Then what happens if Fani Willis is removed by the new state commission? Who gets to replace her? The law (now being challenged in court) gives authority to the commission to remove a DA, but not to appoint a replacement. Does the governor name a replacement? (It's not a state office. I wouldn't think so.) Does the Fulton County DA's office make an Asst. DA an Acting DA till a new election?
What happens next if Fani Willis is removed has a great impact on whether or not Trump's (or anyone else's) trial goes forward. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any details about how replacements are chosen for DAs who are removed.
Does anyone know?
Working link to SB92, bill that created the PAQC:
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20232024/219947
Everyone in the legal system - judges, lawyers, Bar associations, law profs - should be thoroughly embarrassed at the ability of Trump, and many like him, to complicate and delay proceedings.
But they're not.
It's clear to me that most lawyers aren't that smart. Yes, they can *remember* laws and precedents, but how are they at logical thinking? When I see some of Trump's third-rate lawyers, I'm convinced they couldn't follow the intricacies of software architecture, the mechanical interaction of a clock or engine, or be able to be a geologist.
They thrive in the morass of language, where nothing is firmly defined, which allows for motion after motion after motion to "clarify" or reorganize the situation. And don't get me started on "compelling state interest", "undue burden", "reasonable doubt", etc. which are ... what exactly?
There are top-flight legal minds, but for most of them, they can be, will be, and deserve to be, replaced by AI.
Going a little OT on your point, but I've seen comments to the effect that Lauro is a competent lawyer, in spite of his blustering on TV (and apparently today also in court). The blustering is making me skeptical, but we'll see.
However, I don't think people yet appreciate just how melded and fused these trials and the campaign are for trump. The law spectacle is a campaign tactic for him before it's anything else. And his campaign is the legal spectacle. They are the same thing for him, I believe.
Look at the booking spectacle the other day. 80 motorcycles, or whatever it was, 20 SUVs, endless escort with full flashing lights, easy for the news helicopters to follow. It was set up to look like these were police escorts, like these were cops who were there as some kind of honor guard.
But when/if the backstory is dug up, I think the campaign or the RNC will be where the money trail ends, and most of the escorts (two, one in NJ and one in GA) will turn out to have been actors or some MC clubs given rented uniforms for the occasion, and the SUVs borrowed or rented. It was a campaign event.
"Everyone in the legal system - judges, lawyers, Bar associations, law profs - should be thoroughly embarrassed at the ability of Trump, and many like him, to complicate and delay proceedings."
They all make more money when proceedings are compliacted and delayed, and that is enough to overcome their embarrassment.
Neither judgtes, bar associations, nor law professors "make more money" when proceedings are complicated and delayed. Nor do prosecutors, in-house counsel, public defenders, or really any other type of attorney who is not paid by the hour.
Do Trump's attorneys make more money if things are complicated and delayed? Maybe, if he pays them.
For the most part, lawyers are terrific at logical thinking. That's really what law school is about -- teaching a particular kind of logical thinking. If you enter law school with a good engineering background, then grasping that type of thinking is probably easier than if you come from a comparative literature background, but the college majors that tend to be common among law students (philosophy, economics, certain types of political science) also prepare them for this. Software architecture and simple mechanics are not the only form of logical thinking.
Just watched Asteroid City.
You know what would be great?
A Wes Anderson version of Bewitched.
That would make a fortune.
Speaking of re-dos, I hear that "Back to the Future" is now a Broadway musical.
I thought the same about the trials being significantly delayed by the trump legal team, but here's at least one opposing opinion from someone with legal expertise. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/08/trump-will-lose-march-dc-trial.html
Maybe Trump should try to delay the election.
+1
That calendar should embarrass the hell out of Eileen Cannon, IMO, and hopefully it'll eventually help disqualify her from presiding over his trial in Florida.