Georgia plea deals could put Trump's racketeering trial on the fast track: legal experts

Now that former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro have accepted plea deals from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, which eliminates the need for lengthy months-long trials, the former president's own racketeering trial could be moved up.

In a column for Salon, legal experts Norm Ornstein and Joshua Kolb suggested that Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee suddenly has an open calendar to fill and could choose to move up any one of the RICO co-defendant's trials and that could include the one featuring the former president.

As they wrote, that would be an additional "negative" for Trump and his legal team who are now facing two former Trump lawyers serving as witnesses for the prosecution after the plea deals.

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"The pleas open up the judge’s trial calendar for the next five months, potentially allowing him to schedule the trials of others in that window, including possibly the former president," they wrote.

As they note, Trump appears to have time on his hands too.

"The first Trump trial on these issues in federal court is not set until March. If Chesebro and Powell could get ready for trial on an accelerated basis, surely it’s not unreasonable for Trump and other possible defendants to prepare themselves to face a jury in Atlanta at some point in the coming months," they wrote.

The two added an accelerated trial could also impact Trump's re-election bid.

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"The twin admissions by Chesebro and Powell will now color the looming GOP presidential primary. That matters because the D.C. case will not be resolved until the primaries are over," they suggested.

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