'Cascading effect' of delays could push all Trump's criminal trials past election: expert

Minor delays in Donald Trump's criminal trials could build to have a "cascading effect" that would push all his cases back until after the 2024 general election, former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance warned Monday.

Her warning came on the day that the presidential nomination process officially begins with the Iowa caucuses.

"Politics aside, it's the start of an inevitable round of demands by the former president to delay his court cases until after the election," Vance wrote on her substack.

In Trump's election interference case in D.C., U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already announced a hold on proceedings while the former presidents argues that he should be immune from prosecution.

The Florida classified documents case has already had multiple court dates pushed back by Judge Aileen Cannon which, according to Newsweek, suggests she'd be open revisiting a trial date. It's currently set to start on May 20.

Whether or not Trump's New York trial involving falsifying business records surrounding hush money payments allegedly made to porn actress Stormy Daniels will be rescheduled remains to be seen. The judge has said conflicts and possible delays will be discussed in February.

In the Georgia Jan. 6 case, prosecutor Fani Willis is pushing for an August date, which Trump's team says is too close to the November election. No date has yet been set.

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"While most judges are likely to reject the absolute notion that Trump can't be tried until it's over because he's running for office, the question is how judges will react to specific requests for delays because of a primary or an event on a set date," Vance wrote.

"Even these sorts of smallish delays can have a cascading effect. And at least one judge, Aileen Cannon in the classified documents case, may be more sympathetic overall," she added.

Read the full report over at Newsweek.