The two cases Trump could 'tell his Justice Department to get rid of': legal expert
The trial start dates for former President Donald Trump's Florida classified documents case and his Washington, DC 2020 election interference case both remain up-in-the-air.
MSNBC legal analyst and former Assistant US Attorney Andrew Weissmann, who is co-author of the upcoming book, The Trump Indictments, along with New York University law professor Melissa Murray, explained during Sunday's episode of Morning Joe, that both cases could disappear if Trump becomes president again.
After the US Supreme Court earlier this week agreed to hear the ex-president's argument of absolute immunity from federal prosecution, many legal experts predict the likelihood of Trump convictions before the November election is quite slim.
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"Andrew, the cases that are slipping from the headlines is the unclassified documents [case]," MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire noted. "And there are some valid reasons why that one's moving more slowly, because they are classified documents, clears issues. The former president also drew a pretty Trump-friendly judge. What's your assessment, and what is does the book tell about that case? Does it remain, perhaps, the most open and shut and so tentative because he could make it go away if he's elected again?"
Weissmann replied, "The two federal cases, the Florida case and the DC case are ones that the president — even if there has been a trial — he can tell his Justice Department to get rid of it. Now, he would need to have court approval to do that. There's limited authority for the courts to say 'no'. I agree that because they are classified documents, there are reasons of the case would be slower to deal with those issues. I don't think it justifies the pace that it has been going."
He continued, "There are now numerous reasons that have been given to Judge Cannon to keep that very slow pace, including, as I mentioned, this immunity argument — even though this is conduct that happened after he was president — so there really is no claim of immunity, because he will appeal that. And the same process that we're seeing now in DC is something that we can see in Florida. So there is ample reason for Judge Cannon, if she does what she is continuing to do, to slow-walk that case and essentially have a de facto veto on those charges."
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