I'm actually surprised SCOTUS didn't delay even longer because of this.It will be a historic and surreal split screen: a former president, current presidential candidate and four-time criminal defendant whose lawyers will be fighting two very different sets of felony charges in two courthouses simultaneously.
Politico
[Trump] asked his judge in New York, Justice Juan Merchan, to grant him permission to attend Thursday’s arguments. Merchan declined, noting that Trump’s presence in Washington is optional while his presence at the hush money trial is mandatory.
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Trump is demanding that the Supreme Court declare him “immune” from special counsel Jack Smith’s charges stemming from his attempt to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.
I think they'll do the latter.The court delivered him a unanimous victory in March when it stopped state-level efforts to remove him from the 2024 ballot over his role in stoking the Jan. 6 insurrection. (Trump passed up his chance to attend those arguments in February.) And at earlier stages of the immunity dispute, the court declined Smith’s effort to expedite the case. The high court’s handling of the issue has, in effect, aided Trump’s strategy of trying to delay all of his criminal cases until after the 2024 election.
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Some Trump critics are publicly urging the court to rule by May 20, knowing that if the justices prolong a decision until late June or issue a ruling that requires lower courts to do additional legwork, they could effectively doom Smith’s plan to bring Trump to trial in 2024.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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