Courts are losing patience with 'dead loser' Trump’s 'flailing' delay tactics: legal experts
Former President Donald Trump and his team of lawyers have been using a variety of arguments in the hope of delaying the four criminal trials he is facing. But assuming there are no more delays, jury selection in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s hush money case is less than a week away.
Justice Juan Merchan set Monday, April 15 for jury selection to begin. Trump and his attorneys have offered various arguments against the trial getting underway, from claiming that Merchan is politically biased to requesting a change of venue.
But Salon's Charles R. Davis, in an article published on April 9, stresses that according to legal experts, courts have become increasingly fed up with their delay tactics.
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On April 8, Judge Lizbeth González of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division flat-out rejected the change of venue request — firmly stating, "Defendant's application for a stay of trial…. is denied."
Davis notes that CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen described Trump's bias argument as "a dead loser from the get-go." And conservative attorney George Conway tweeted, "The Appellate Division issued this order so quickly the judges didn't even have time to stop laughing."
On X, formerly Twitter, ex-federal prosecutor Harry Litman commented that Trump "is flailing and embarrassing himself within the legal system."
MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann took a swipe at the U.S. Supreme Court in an April 8 tweet, posting, "The NY Courts are fed up - Trump trial in a week. The US Supreme Court shd take note and see how it's done to vindicate our right to a public trial.
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Read Salon's full article at this link.
