“Twin court rulings on Friday underscored how prosecutors’ carefully laid plans to put former President Donald Trump on trial have nearly all been upended with less than eight months until Election Day,” Politico reports.
“In each of Trump’s four criminal cases, from South Florida to Manhattan, Trump’s prosecutors have seemed to be on their heels of late, at the mercy of a dwindling 2024 calendar, adverse decisions from judges as well as missteps, miscalculations and just plain bad luck.”
“But the extent of the damage remains unclear, and it still seems conceivable Trump could face a jury in two or three of the cases before the year is out — though each day that passes without resolution makes cramming multiple trials into 2024 unlikely.”
New York Times: “Until the election, his goal appears to be to manufacture the prosecutorial equivalent of a four-car pileup at the busiest legal intersection in America. And despite Mr. Trump’s laments about a cabal of Deep State liberal prosecutors putting their heads together to conspire against him, the reality is that there is no single cop directing traffic.”
