A federal judge in Florida has declined to postpone former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial. U.S.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024. Trump’s lawyers had argued that they needed more time to review the large trove of evidence with which they’d been presented and cited scheduling challenges resulting from the other legal cases against Trump, including three additional criminal prosecutions for which he is awaiting trial.

  • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    1 year ago

    The classified documents case is the one where a conviction disqualified the defendant from running for federal office.

    It definitely shouldn’t be postponed past the Republican convention. If the GOP needs a new candidate, they should be given a chance to choose one for the sake of fair elections.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The classified documents case is the one where a conviction disqualified the defendant from running for federal office.

      Unfortunately I don’t believe this is the case. What statute do you believe does this?

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 year ago

      Correction, from holding any major state office either. If he’s convicted then there can be no doubt that he engaged in insurrection. That will mean that the 14th Amendment will apply. That reads, in part:

      No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

      I mean, he could probably still run for a school board, but he can’t be in any state legislature, or executive, or even a judge in any state.