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How Trump will seek to pit federal judges against each other to avoid trial Katelyn Polantz
CNN ^ | February 26, 2024 , 5.00am | Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Posted on 02/26/2024 3:53:55 AM PST by deport

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity this week to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases.

Juggling his campaign and court calendar and playing his cases off one another is a key part of Trump’s legal strategy. The ultimate goal, his team has said openly, is to prevent Trump from being tried in federal court before voters cast their ballots in the 2024 general election.

A primary aim for Trump’s legal team, according to people familiar with the strategy, is to put the judge in DC overseeing the 2020 federal election obstruction case, Tanya Chutkan, in a position where she can’t start a trial before Election Day.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: katelynpolantz; tanyachutkan; trump

1 posted on 02/26/2024 3:53:55 AM PST by deport
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To: deport

Lawfare? How dare he?


2 posted on 02/26/2024 4:02:48 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: deport

CNN: That dastardly Trump team is trying to mitigate our abuse of lawfare in the upcoming election. Its not really Deoncracy unless its illegal to oppose us, ya know.


3 posted on 02/26/2024 4:12:27 AM PST by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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To: gundog

Its unavoidable , given the unprofessional, unethical, borderline criminal activities of the judges who have allowed these silly lawsuits to go on and on…. Not even trying to hide their bias.


4 posted on 02/26/2024 4:13:01 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: deport

He’s not pitting judges against each other.

Those corrupt and immoral judges have no business violating the law.


5 posted on 02/26/2024 4:20:13 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: gundog

A primary aim for Trump, is to return to Tanya Chutkan (the DC judge overseeing the
2020 federal election obstruction case), some measure of the legal crap she laid on Trump.


6 posted on 02/26/2024 4:24:13 AM PST by Liz (Political correctness is tyranny with manners. Charlton Heston.)
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To: deport

Pitting against each other, otherwise known as the right to appeal.


7 posted on 02/26/2024 4:47:34 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: deport
The Miami case must be dead by now. The Big Guy's Department of Just Us has already announced that The Big Guy is guilty but won't be prosecuted. IMO the DC case is the key. It seems to me that DJT's lawyers can file dozens of briefs demanding testimony from various Department of Just Us officials regarding contacts they've had with Short Fat Fani's people in Atlanta. In fact it seems that his lawyers can also explore possible contacts they've had with Bragg's people in NYC.

SCOTUS has shown no backbone so far regarding election fraud and other related issues.Let's see what,if anything,they're willing to do about the Rat Party's lawfare jihad.

8 posted on 02/26/2024 4:54:35 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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To: deport

So - CNN is upset that Trump will legally leverage the boondoggle his oppressors have created through their illegal activities....


9 posted on 02/26/2024 5:00:39 AM PST by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: gundog

Statist pieces of crap like the author of this piece are upset that innocent subjects of illegal activities and government organized and supported lawfare (that people like this execrable author both endorse and enthusiastically collaborate with via their partisan advocacy) would deign to fight the unethical illegality with any tools at their disposal.

I am glad Trump has the means to do so. He also has the gumption and an axe to grind, so I could see him expending every single cent he has to defend himself, getting back into office, and going after the people engaging in lawfare as a political tool.

General Michael Flynn was not so lucky. As a career military officer and a man of integrity, he wasn’t breaking the law by grifting and feathering his own bed as so many others like him have done, and so, when they came after him, he had very little money or means to hire lawyers to serve in his defense.


10 posted on 02/26/2024 5:29:40 AM PST by rlmorel ("The stigma for being wrong is gone, as long as you're wrong for the right side." (Clarice Feldman))
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To: deport

America really needs to cull its Feral “judge” herd. If Feral “judges” were buffalo, there would be no Ozone layer.


11 posted on 02/26/2024 5:31:43 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (John Oliver is a racist liberal biatch.)
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To: deport

How dare Trump defend himself! We know he’s guilty!


12 posted on 02/26/2024 6:26:45 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: gundog

I always look to CNN to provide me insight into Trump’s thinking and planning.


13 posted on 02/26/2024 6:35:30 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: deport
you lefties are responsible.

judges saw nothing done to prosecute the mob illegally surrounding and threatening supreme court judges.

you now reap the blow back

trump has zero to do with it.

14 posted on 02/26/2024 6:57:36 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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