wisdom to just fighting everything, trying to push back or delay anything and run out the clock. what do you think? yeah, i think it is a smart legal strategy on the part of the former president. this federal criminal prosecutions he is facing, the one in washington, d.c., the one in florida, if president trump were to win this election in november, it is a whole new world with a sweep of his wand, he could make those federal prosecutions go away the day he takes office by directing the justice department to abandon the prosecutions. state prosecutions i think could be a little tougher but they re too i think you would have a decent argument that you can t prosecute a sitting president, so for all of those reasons, i totally get why their strategy here is to try to push things back if possible, delay all of these upcoming trials until after the election. neil: but he can t push them all back, can he? well, we will see. i think he has a good chance of pushing some of them back. li
Trump-era Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark cannot move his Georgia election subversion case from state to federal court, a judge ruled Friday.
that we can view, again, whether it s fair or not, and so many state prosecutions against individual defendants we may have differing views about, but congress has no place to question the individual judgment of an individual prosecutor in an individual case. there might be circumstances where congress could look at how are federal dollars being spent at this district attorney s office throughout a year, over many, many cases. there might be circumstances where congress has a place to ask, are civil rights being violated systematically? it is inappropriate for a sitting congressperson to send a letter, and we expect, a follow-up subpoena to try to interfere with a prosecution. can i broaden this out and ask about the timing issues? look, nobody seems to think fani willis is going to get her desire to have all of this the trial of all 19 defendants
understand. well, certainly this is a unique experience for him. deaf it in new york. laura: do you think it s unique, tim, really? well, for him, yeah. laura: yeah, i would say. it s his fourth time now but still, the way that they are doing it down in fulton county is very different how they did it in new york and very different from how the feds did it. laura: they don t have to do what they re doing, do they? it s a discretionary issue. they are not required to fingerprint or to do the mugshot. they decided to do it. it s the commonplace but they have the discretion. i believe so. you know, in a lot of these state prosecutions they do have that type of discretion. especially after covid. i mean, we have done plenty of cases where the entire case is by zoom. but, you know, i think they did want to do it for optics. laura: yeah. well, the mugshot of donald trump will go down, i mean, remember the mugshot of frank sinatra? that s like a poster on kids rooms in college.
understand. well, certainly this is a unique experience for him. deaf it in new york. laura: do you think it s unique, tim, really? well, for him, yeah. laura: yeah, i would say. it s his fourth time now but still, the way that they are doing it down in fulton county is very different how they did it in new york and very different from how the feds did it. laura: they don t have to do what they re doing, do they? it s a discretionary issue. they are not required to fingerprint or to do the mugshot. they decided to do it. it s the commonplace but they have the discretion. i believe so. you know, in a lot of these state prosecutions they do have that type of discretion. especially after covid. i mean, we have done plenty of cases where the entire case is by zoom. but, you know, i think they did want to do it for optics. laura: yeah. well, the mugshot of donald trump will go down, i mean, remember the mugshot of frank sinatra? that s like a poster on kids rooms in college.