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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/14/opinion/supreme-court-trump-delay.html
The Supreme Court Can Stop Trump’s Delay Game
Dec. 14, 2023
Greg Kahn for The New York Times
By
Jesse Wegman
Mr. Wegman, a member of the editorial board, writes about legal issues.
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This is a good week to remember that in the hours after Senate Republicans refused to convict Donald Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, offered a hint of future comeuppance for the former president. Mr. Trump, he said, was still liable for everything he did as president.
“He didn’t get away with anything yet — yet,”
Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor on Feb. 13, 2021. “We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.”
Almost three years later, we are approaching the moment of truth. Mr. Trump, under federal indictment for his role in the insurrection, is attempting to evade legal accountability as he always has, by delay and misdirection.
On Monday night, the case
reached the Supreme Court, where litigation is normally measured in months, if not years. That’s understandable, especially when legal issues are complex or involve matters of great public significance. The course of justice is slow and steady, as the
tortoise sculptures scattered around the court’s building at One First Street symbolize.
But sometimes time is of the essence. That’s the case now, as the court weighs whether to expedite the case against Mr. Trump, who is trying to get his criminal charges thrown out a few weeks before the Republican primaries begin and less than a year before the 2024 election.
Last week after the federal trial judge, Tanya Chutkan,
rejected Mr. Trump’s legal arguments that he is immune from prosecution, he
appealed to the federal appeals court in Washington, a process that he clearly hoped would add weeks of delay. The special counsel Jack Smith countered by
going directly to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take the case away from the appeals court and rule quickly.
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