Trump prosecutions remain stalled a year after Georgia RICO indictment

A year has passed since Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference/RICO indictment against Donald Trump and a long list of co-defendants came down, increasing the number of criminal prosecutions he was facing at the time to four.

Axios' Sareen Habeshian examines the fate of these cases in an article published on August 15, noting that one of them — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s hush money/falsified business records indictment — resulted in a conviction while the other three "have either been dismissed, put on ice or undercut."

"There are two significant remaining cases against Trump over the 2020 election: in Georgia and at the federal level in a case overseen by special counsel Jack Smith," Habeshian notes. "If he's reelected, those cases will likely be halted. If he loses, he will likely be spending time in courtrooms once again as the two cases play out."

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In July, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed Smith's classified documents case against the former president — reducing the number of active prosecutions to three. But Smith has appealed Cannon's ruling.

Meanwhile, a sentencing date for the hush money case has been set for September 18.

"Trump and his legal team have employed several delay tactics, often successfully, in the four criminal cases he faced in an effort to punt them past the November election," Habeshian explains. "In Georgia, his efforts to force prosecutor Fani Willis off the case have booted any potential verdict past the 2025 presidential inauguration. A Georgia appeals court, on Wednesday, (August 14), denied his legal team's request to postpone December 5 oral arguments over Willis' disqualification from the case. "

Habeshian adds, "Related to his federal January 6 case, the Supreme Court ruled, in July, that presidents have immunity for 'official acts' and punted to trial court the question of whether his alleged conduct was protected."

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Axios' full article is available at this link.