The 2020 U.S. Election Trial: A Complex Case for a Major Party Presidential Candidate in the White House and the Case of Jack Smith

The counterproposal to the Justice Department’s recommendation that the trial should start in January of 2020 was made last week. The Trump team wants the trial to be delayed until nearly a year and a half after the election in which Trump is the early favorite for the Republican nomination, but Jack Smith’s team will oppose the request.

The question will be left to the U.S District Judge, who is expected to make a tentative trial date in August.

In a court filing Thursday evening, Trump’s lawyers say the years-long delay is warranted because of the “massive” amount of information — prosecutors have already produced more than 11.5 million pages — they have to review and because of scheduling conflicts with the other criminal cases Trump is facing.

There would have to be about 100,000 pages of review done per day in order for jurors to be selected by the Justice Department.

A tower of paper stretching nearly 5,000 feet into the sky is what a pile of documents with no gap between pages would look like. That is taller than the Washington Monument, stacked on top of itself eight times, with nearly a million pages to spare,” the defense lawyers wrote.

The questions that are involved in the case will take a while to sort out. A four-count indictment was issued this month that accuses Trump of working to subvert the results of the election in order to cling to power.

No president has ever been accused of a crime while in office. Attorneys wrote that no major party presidential candidate had ever been charged while in the middle of a campaign, and not by the Justice Department. “These and numerous other issues will be questions of first impression, requiring significant time for the parties to consider and brief, and for the Court to resolve.”

In the coming months, President Trump must prepare for each trial. All are independently complex and will require substantial work to defend. Defense lawyers wrote that several of the cases will likely need President Trump’s presence at some or all of the trial proceedings.

After consulting with his lawyers, President Trump said he was canceling plans for a press conference next week to reveal new evidence of fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia.

In Georgia, the state at the center of his latest indictment, three recounts were conducted after the election — each of which confirmed his loss to Biden.

Insights into the 2016 Georgian Senate Minority Election Case against the Exonerated Correspondent, Michael K”ahler

He was going to use the major News Conference at his golf club to release a report that would exonerate him.

Advisers to the former president have urged him to spend more time planning for the future and less time airing his grievances as he runs for reelection. It’s sometimes criticized by his supporters that it’s time to move on from such rhetoric, which is often seen as alienating more moderate and independent voters.

The cases against him have increased the stakes. The federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case brought against Trump in Washington last week warned him that there are limits to what he can publicly say about evidence in the investigation as he campaigns for a second term in the White House.

The judge said she will be rushing to trial in order to avoid witness intimidation or jury pool taint from inflammatory statements about the case.

Still, Trump has made clear that he sees the cases brought against him in Georgia and Washington as an opportunity to try to relitigate his false claims.

Kemp, the state’s Republican Gov., denounced the renewed attacks on Georgia’s vote this week, as part of Trump’s efforts to overturn his loss in the state.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, whom Trump had tried to pressure to unilaterally overturn the results of the election and who is now challenging Trump for the Republican nomination, echoed that message.