Can we stop with the "Trump always wins delays in court!" stuff? And the assumption behind it, that judges are mindless automatons who follow procedural rules blindly and mechanically?Judge slaps down Trump's efforts to delay NY AG's fraud lawsuit https://t.co/uA2yarathJ
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 21, 2023
“This case is complex, but it’s not complicated,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron declared in court on Tuesday. “It all boils down to whether the statements of financial condition are true, and the rest as Rabbi Hillel famously said, is all commentary.”Trump’s attorneys asked the judge to postpone the Oct. 2 trial by six months, deep into the presidential campaign season. Attorney Christopher Kise returned to court with a more modest request of a couple of weeks, which would move the trial to Oct. 23.Engoron remained skeptical of the request.“I don’t want to move this trial, not only because I said I don’t want to move it,” said Engoron, noting that he thinks it isn’t necessary.Ultimately, his original trial date held firm....Justice Engoron previously signaled plans to stick to that trial date “come hell or high water.” Engoron quoted his own remarks in sticking to his original date.Even after that warning, Trump’s legal team pushed for another adjournment. They argued that the AG’s three-year investigation required more time to review a massive evidence haul that included interviews with more than 65 witnesses and millions of pages of documents.Trump’s attorneys Alina Habba and Clifford Robert argued that, without more time, the trial would be “simply a one-way ticket on a railroad to the Attorney General’s predetermined destination.”In commenting on the simplicity of the case, Engoron noted that Trump’s defenses would be limited under New York law. He said that “Everyone was doing it” and “Those parties could reach their own conclusions” are not legal defenses.
Trump's legal geniuses are doing as well as they did in the 60+ cases trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Oh, and there was a scary bomb threat:
Proceedings in the civil lawsuit were delayed a half hour after a courtroom clerk announced a “security issue” affecting the complex of courthouses in lower Manhattan. That threat was resolved shortly after, with the clerk announcing: “We’re all safe.”
On it!we probably need one of those green/yellow/red alert codes for current state of threat from Trump-aligned domestic terrorists https://t.co/pQjOl8XDxq via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 21, 2023
(The highest level is "Rush album 'Moving Pictures' ")
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