Former President Donald Trump recently took to his Truth Social and noted that:
“California has recently passed depraved new so-called “Sanctuary” laws for gender-confused children…We will not allow this madness to continue. That’s why my administration will prosecute anyone who engages in such crimes…”
California has recently passed depraved new so-called “Sanctuary” laws for gender-confused children…We will not allow this madness to continue. That’s why my administration will prosecute anyone who engages in such crimes…
Donald Trump Truth Social Post 04:07 PM EST 10/14/23 pic.twitter.com/YnTb0sk0lz
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) October 14, 2023
It has been noted that Donald Trump’s first few months in federal court as a defendant have shown the former president is employing the same strategy he typically brings to his civil cases: seeking delay.
Trump recently grabbed the headlines with one motion suggesting his May trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case should be bumped until mid-November 2024 after the election.
It has been noted that it was a fallback from an earlier position that a Florida judge shouldn’t even set a trial date. In his election interference case, also brought by special counsel Jack Smith, Trump’s attorneys initially suggested the trial should be in 2026.
But the effort to punt his trials far into the future have overshadowed motions seeking more limited delays that, if successful, could collectively bump the trials beyond election season.
“This is sort of an incremental strategy; you don’t expect to win all at once,” Ankush Khardori, a former federal prosecutor, said of the smaller motions Trump’s team has filed in recent weeks.
“Over time, the aggregate effect can be to push things out.”
Some of Trump’s latest motions have been on more technical matters arising before trial. In both the Mar-a-Lago case and his election interference case, he has sought delays under a law that deals with how classified information is shared at trial.
The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) lays out a number of junctions for each side to jockey over classified evidence, sorting out how it will be handled and presented at trial.
