BREAKING: Trump Team Files Urgent Motion in Federal Court
President Trump’s legal team just filed an urgent motion to delay his classified documents trial until after the 2024 presidential election. Trump’s team argued “American democracy” is at risk because a “miscarriage of justice” will result if the Deep State’s political prosecution continues as planned.
As reported:
Former President Trump’s attorneys are asking a judge to delay his trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case without setting a new start date.
“The government’s request to begin a trial of this magnitude within six months of indictment is unreasonable, telling, and would result in a miscarriage of justice,” they wrote in the brief.
“The Government appears to favor an expedited (and therefore cursory) approach to this case,” they added.
The Justice Department has requested a Dec. 11 trial date. Judge Aileen Cannon had earlier set an initial August trial date, which the filing also asks her to withdraw.
Trump’s team does not suggest a new date, noting he will be busy running for president while arguing the prosecution will hinder his efforts to run for office.
Trump’s team also argues the prosecution will hinder his efforts to run for office.
A federal grand jury indicted President Trump last month on 37 felony charges. And there may be additional charges, meaning a separate indictment filed in Washington, D.C., very soon. And they all want to start legal proceedings in December, right before the 2024 election campaign really begins to heat up. If you don’t think the radical Left’s pushing hard to get these trials going before the election is a calculated strategy to try to prevent Trump from being re-elected, you need to guess again.
The prosecution is hardly giving President Trump’s legal team the proper time to prepare a defense, especially in such a complex case as this one, as our own ACLJ Senior Counsel Andy Economou explained:
Today, July 11th, the trial – according to the prosecutors – they want it to start December 11th, 2023, which is hardly sufficient time to prepare a complicated case like this for trial. I’ve had trials that have gone on, that have been indicted, and haven’t been tried for two or three years because they’ve been certified as complex cases. Here you’ve got the Presidential Records Act implicated. You’ve got search warrants that were executed in Mar-a-Lago that may be subject to motions to suppress. You’ve got the question of the President of the United States who’s announced that he’s going to run again against a former President of the United States, so you’ve got an entire jury pool in the southern district of Florida that’s going to be implicated in doing this. So Judge Cannon is going to have to make some very difficult decisions in this case and decide what she’s going to do.
For every count – every so-called classified document – you have to go to the Classified Information Procedures Act. Of the 37 counts against former President Trump, 31 are classified. That means they’ll have to refer to the Classified Information Procedures Act 31 times alone. Imagine how long that is going to take. This case would absolutely benefit from – and more to the point – clearly requires more time. Otherwise, it’s not a speedy trial; it’s just a hasty trial. We know how fair hasty trials tend to end up, and perhaps that’s exactly why the Left would like to see that. Requesting more time seems completely appropriate. Now we just have to wait to see if the motion is accepted.
Today’s full Sekulow broadcast includes more analysis of this latest filing by President Trump’s legal team asking for more time in the classified documents case. We’re also joined by Sekulow contributor and former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard to discuss the newest social media platform, Threads, which is owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, and its invasive privacy policies that you probably ought to know about before you sign up.
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