DJT Court timeline by Mary L. Trump
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Thank you, Mary, for this important information
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Mary L. Trump, The Good in Us, Substack
Excerpt from: Taking It in His Stride
The election interference is all on one side
Here’s an abbreviated timeline with the most salient developments over the last 23 months:
11/18/2022: Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith; Smith sends out subpoenas four days later
8/28/2023: Judge Chutkan schedules the trial to start on 3/04/2024
11/05/2023: Donald files a motion to dismiss his case, citing what his absolute presidential immunity
12/11/2023: Smith, leap-frogging the federal appeals court, asks the Supreme Court to decide the issue of presidential immunity.
12/13/2023: Judge Chutkan agrees to the defense’s request to stay proceedings in the case during the appeals process.
12/22/2023: The Supreme Court denies the special counsel's request to take up the immunity claims, handing it back to the federal appeals court.
1/09/2024: A three-judge panel in the D.C., Court of Appeals hears arguments about whether to dismiss the case on grounds of Donald’s claims of presidential immunity
2/06/2024: The Court of Appeals judges write, "We reject all three potential bases for immunity both as a categorical defense to federal criminal prosecutions of former Presidents and as applied to this case in particular," rejecting Donald’s claim of presidential immunity.
2/12/2024: Donald’s defense lawyers ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the appeals court decision.
2/28/2024: SCOTUS agrees and schedules oral arguments for the week of April 22. (What’s the rush, right?)
7/01/2024: The corrupt illegitimate super-majority of the Supreme Court, in a decision that rips the Constitution to shreds, rules that Donald is, in fact, entitled to some immunity from criminal prosecution. The case is sent back to the trial court (over which Judge Chutkan presides).
8/03/2024: Wasting no time, Judge Chutkan resumes the election interference case and denies Donald’s motion to dismiss.
8/08/2024: Special Counsel Jack Smith request more time in order to take the Supreme Court ruling into account.
The reason we are here is not because Jack Smith, Judge Chutkan or some cabal of radical left-wing Deep State Democrats are engaged in a conspiracy to commit election interference. We’re here because Donald Trump figured out a long time ago how to game the system. If you're the guilty party, and he nearly always is, your best bet is to create as many delays as possible. He has successfully done this time after time after time. This time around he also had the corrupt, illegitimate super-majority of the Supreme Court backing him up all the way. So, if Donald wants to blame somebody for the fact that Smith’s filing was made public so close to the election, he just needs to look in the mirror.