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With trial done, Trump’s Georgia case gets October news (www.msnbc.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by jordanlund to c/politics
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"we learned Monday that the state appeals court has tentatively set an Oct. 4 hearing date on the defense attempt to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from Trump’s state election interference case. The trial judge, Scott McAfee, said in March that Willis could stay on the case if her special prosecutor stepped down. The prosecutor, Nathan Wade, with whom Willis had a romantic relationship, did so. But the defense still appealed McAfee’s ruling, arguing that it hadn’t cured the alleged conflict of interest and that the case itself should be dismissed."

Edit No article on this part yet, but CNN has reported that the Georgia Appeals Court has halted this case until Fani Willis' position can be determined, and while the HEARING is set for October, the actual RULING might not happen until March, 2025.

Confirmed - Updated post here:
https://lemmy.world/post/16218167

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[–] jordanlund 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If you're trying to keep track of where we're at in the Trump prosecutions:

Updated 06/05/2024  

New York
34 state felonies
Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest
Trial
Conviction <- You Are Here Guilty, all 34 counts.
Sentencing - July 11, 2024

Florida
40 federal felonies
Top Secret Documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies. 3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - May 8th, 2024 - Trial has been placed on an Indefinite Hold.
A June 21st hearing is scheduled to determine if the Special Prosecutor even has the authority to prosecute the case.
Conviction
Sentencing

Washington, D.C.
4 federal felonies
January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest  <- You Are Here
Trial - The trial, originally scheduled for March 4th, has been placed on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling on Presidential Immunity. They heard those arguments on April 25th. and the ruling is expected in June.
Conviction
Sentencing

Georgia
10 state felonies
Election Interference
As of 3/13/24 - Judge McAfee cleared 6 charges, 3 against Trump, saying they were too generic to be enforced.
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
All 19 defendants have surrendered.
Trial - An October 4th, 2024 hearing has been set to determine if Fani Willis can remain on the case.
Three defendants, Kenneth Chesebro, Sidney Powell, and bail bondsman Scott Hall, have all pled guilty and have agreed to testify in other cases.
Conviction
Sentencing

Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, or the Arizona fake electors, have not been announced.

The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it's a civil case and not a crimimal one. He was found liable in that case for $83.3 million.

There had been multiple cases in multiple states to remove Trump from the ballot, citing ineligibility under the 14th amendment.

The Supreme Court ruled on March 4th that states do not have the ability to determine eligibility in Federal elections.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/video/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-colorado-supreme-court-donald-trump-ballot-ruling/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thank you so much for this. It would be nice to have a living document of this where, when you make a change, the subscribers could get a notification inviting them to see the revised picture.

Great presentation and thank you for posting the article. Have a great day!

[–] jordanlund 4 points 7 months ago

I had to update it TWICE last night(!)

I did this one first, thought I was done, then found the Florida story!

[–] Skepticpunk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if you could throw a simple website up on Neocities with an RSS feed.

[–] jordanlund 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll look into that!

[–] newbeni 2 points 6 months ago

I mean, it just blows my mind that we are talking about an RSS feed about a former president's criminal trials like it's something that just needs to be done. It does need to be done, but wow.

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 11 points 7 months ago

Ocfuckingtober

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wow good thing there’s no point in time beyond which these court cases will just be summarily killed as a function of which way the election goes

~internal~ ~screaming~

[–] shalafi 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

POTUS can't overturn state cases.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure, but if Trump manages to win somehow, I am 100% positive that he’ll try to anyways, and he has a shitload of enablers who will follow his lead just because they like the idea of the First American Reich.

You aren’t getting it. The failure conditions of this next election is “we get a different type of government, and it’s not even remotely democratic, and likely doesn’t resemble our previous type of government much at all”.