The New Yorker:

Judge Aileen Cannon has said, in effect, that the case has become too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, that may be true.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin 

On Tuesday, Judge Aileen Cannon, of the Southern District of Florida, said that she simply does not know when Donald Trump will go to trial in her courtroom. Jack Smith, the special counsel, had charged Trump with thirty-two counts under the Espionage Act, for allegedly hoarding national-security documents at Mar-a-Lago, and with another eight counts involving obstruction and false statements. The trial had tentatively been set for May 20th. Now, following Judge Cannon’s order, the prosecutors will have to hope for an update at a “status conference” hearing on July 22nd—which, as it happens, is four days after the Republican National Convention, where Trump will almost certainly get his party’s formal Presidential nomination, wraps up in Milwaukee. Cannon, in her order, said in effect that the whole business of the case has become much too complicated to proceed sooner. Unfortunately, for many reasons—not all of them under Cannon’s control—that may, indeed, be true.

There were, Cannon said, “myriad and interconnected” unresolved issues and “novel and difficult questions,” which made it “imprudent” to proceed sooner. For Smith’s team, these supposed mysteries might be boiled down to a couple of simple questions: Why can’t Cannon just move faster? Why won’t she shut Trump down, when he clearly wants delay for delay’s sake? (If Trump wins the election, he might kill the case.) “Each time the Court sets a new deadline in this case and attempts to keep it moving toward trial, the defendants reflexively ask for an adjournment,” the prosecutors wrote in a filing a few weeks ago. “That must stop.”

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