JUST IN: Georgia appeals corut has agreed to consider Trump's appeal of the ruling rejecting Fani Willis' disqualification from his criminal case.

This is almost certain to significantly delay the potential trial, which was already unsettled. efast.gaappeals.us/download?filin…

NEWS: Cannon's decision significantly lowers the chances that Trump will face trial on the calssified documents charge in 2024 — in addition to the already remote chance that he faces trial on the 2020 election case this year.

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BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

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Rejected tabloid headlines from today's proceedings:

-Trump unprotected from Stormy testimony as judge's prophylactic measures fail.

-Trump blanches as Stormy braggs

A whole lot of people inaccurately saying Trump posted something about Stormy Daniels, thereby violating his gag order, not realizing it was a non-Trump account posting a year-old Trump statement.

NEW: Trump's prosecutors set aside the sex scandal for a day to focus on the nuts and bolts of the charges against Trump, making for a comparatively dull — if essential — slate of testimony.

w/ Josh Gerstein

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DOJ update on prosecutions *40 months* after Jan. 6:

1,424 charged
-510 w assault/impeding officers
-355 w obstruction of Congress

820 guilty pleas
-255 of them to felonies
-565 to misdemeanors

199 convicted at trial

884 sentenced
-554 of them to jailtime

Trump's 'bash Cohen at every turn' defense is unsurprising. But prosecution 101 has an answer to these kinds of attacks on cooperating witnesses — 'the witness may be a lowlife, sleazy, criminal moron, so what does it say that the defendant kept counsel with him for many years?'

I don’t get this. If, as Judge Merchan says, all the offending statements were made prior to the imposition of the first fine, why does he say that it’s evident that fines won’t deter Trump? Deterrence doesn’t work retroactively!

Can't believe Trump's trial in Florida is just two weeks away.