Appeals court just signaled the 'end to Trump's dirty game of delay': legal expert
The federal Court of Appeals is blowing the whistle on Trump's legal slow-walking strategy to buy time until election day in November 2024.
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner marveled at the pace that the D.C. Court of Appeals, which he said is moving to essentially expedite Trump's federal election subversion case to keep to its March 4 start date.
"So the appellate courts are now signaling that they will no longer indulge Donald Trump's crooked little game of delay, delay, delay," he said on his daily YouTube video show, "Justice Matters." On social media, Kirschner said Trump's delay tactics were "dirty."
Already, an appeals court denied Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadow's try to take his Georgia election interference case from state to federal court in one business day and oral arguments were heard days later.
Likewise, the D.C. Court of Appeals on Monday set a Jan. 9 deadline for arguments on Trump's immunity appeal, and scheduled the hearings on the former president's motion to dismiss the federal election interference case ahead of an action expected to come from the Supreme Court.
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Such swift decisions are extremely rare. For Kirschner has dealt with the same court, and he described waiting "months and months" to land a calendar date to produce oral arguments.
"Appeals do not ordinarily work their way through the system quickly," he explained. "However in this case Donald Trumps criminal prosecution for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the case in which the presiding Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that presidents are not kings and that Donald Trump does not have immunity against being prosecuted for the crimes he committed while in office... The appellate court first ordered all of the briefs to be submitted at light speed."
Cutting the wait factor is going to be a promising thing for the country and the prospective vote on who will be president come 2024, according to the legal analyst.
Kirschner calls the faster pace "a good thing" because it will render a verdict in the former president's case "such that if he's the Republican nominee, the voters will go to the polls in November knowing whether they're casting their vote for a convicted and likely imprisoned felon, or a completely innocent man."
"Fully exonerated by a jury. Found not guilty on all charges," he said.