Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday delayed the May 20, 2024, trial date for the paperwork case involving former President Donald Trump indefinitely, signaling it will not happen earlier than the November 2024 presidential election, in response to a submitting.
Judge Aileen Cannon (United States District Court)
Tuesday’s submitting set various pre-trial deadlines and hearings within the case concerning pending discovery and disclosure issues and to adjudicate pre-trial motions, in addition to cope with procedures on labeled info.
Given the variety of excellent points, Cannon mentioned it will be “imprudent” to schedule a brand new trial date. She wrote within the five-page filing:
The Court additionally determines that finalization of a trial date at this juncture — earlier than decision of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and CIPA points remaining and forthcoming — can be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s responsibility to totally and pretty take into account the varied pending pre-trial motions earlier than the Court, crucial CIPA points, and extra pretrial and trial preparations essential to current this case to a jury. The Court subsequently vacates the present May 20, 2024, trial date (and related calendar name), to be reset by separate order following decision of the issues earlier than the Court, in keeping with Defendants’ proper to due course of and the general public’s curiosity within the honest and environment friendly administration of justice.
BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon has postponed Donald Trump’s trial date in Florida indefinitely.
Judge Cannon has vacated the May 20, 2024 trial date and is unable to set a brand new date as a result of it “would be imprudent” with so many “pending pre-trial motions.”
“The Court subsequently… pic.twitter.com/wpLszuf8Hy
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 7, 2024
One reporter famous it might be “months” earlier than a brand new trial date was set.
BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s trial date in Florida.
It could also be months earlier than we all know the brand new schedule.https://t.co/SScVNc0KAD pic.twitter.com/xnmlCjK92X
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 7, 2024
Pro-Trump authorized analysts cheered the choice.
Mike Davis, founding father of the Article III Project, posted on X, “The Democrats’ house of cards is crumbling. Very quickly.”
The Democrats’ home of playing cards is crumbling.
Very rapidly. https://t.co/8IRBByPs5Q
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) May 7, 2024
Kash Patel, former prime Trump administration official, joked on Truth Social:
Jack Smith’s possibilities for his unconstitutional prosecution of @actualDonaldTrump has about as a lot probability of succeeding as @BidenHQ Hamas engineered ceasefire…oh wait.
Meanwhile, progressive authorized analysts reacted angrily to the choice.
Trump-hating George Conway, a contributor to the Atlantic, known as Cannon incompetent and biased.
Of course she did.
A reliable and unbiased decide would have tried this case to verdict already. https://t.co/RrOOpXk0Ud
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 7, 2024
Anthony Coley, a former Obama administration official and contributor to MSNBC, known as the choice a “miscarriage of justice,” posting on X:
Aileen Cannon is a MAGA activist in a black gown giving Trump what he needs: an indefinite delay to flee accountability for unlawful eradicating and retaining among the Nation’s labeled secrets and techniques. The courts is not going to save us, of us. It’s on us.
Miscarriage of justice.
Aileen Cannon is a MAGA activist in a black gown giving Trump what he needs: an indefinite delay to flee accountability for illegally eradicating and retaining among the Nation’s labeled secrets and techniques.
The courts is not going to save us, of us. It’s on us. https://t.co/e5L6E0sqTi
— Anthony Coley (@AnthonyColey) May 7, 2024
An anti-Trump X account invited assaults in opposition to Cannon, posting her photograph and asking customers to describer her “in ONE word.”
Describe Judge Aileen Cannon in ONE phrase. pic.twitter.com/nSUDL0zDKZ
— Republicans in opposition to Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) May 7, 2024
However, a minimum of one Democrat appeared to acknowledge that the method through the case has been missing.
Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder posted on X:
Let’s simply cope with a really disturbing actuality right here: this complete course of within the paperwork case has merely not been on the up and up.
Fox News contributor Joe Concha posted, “Even Eric Holder knows that Jack Smith has been utterly inept here. You’ll see on CNN and MSNBC targeting Judge Cannon as compromised (while bear hugging Judge Merchan) but as Holder points out, this is all on Smith.”
This is a creating story.
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