Another Trump Trial Faces Delay

All four criminal cases against Donald Trump have become mired in issues that have pushed back the start of trials.

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Donald Trump has used a number of tactics to delay his trials.

Donald Trump’s New York hush money case — the only one of his four criminal cases that looked as if it would soon go to trial — suddenly faced the likelihood of delay today when a big batch of potential new evidence abruptly became available.

The news of the likely postponement arrived as the former president was in federal court in Florida for a separate hearing in a different case — the one in which he stands accused of mishandling classified documents, which even now has no solid start date.

Tomorrow, a judge in Georgia is expected to rule in yet another of the four cases on whether to disqualify the district attorney who charged Trump and a group of his allies with tampering with that state’s election results in 2020 — a decision that could be pivotal in determining whether the case goes to trial this year, or at all.

And in Washington, prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers are preparing for a showdown at the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments next month on Trump’s claim that he is immune from charges in the federal indictment that accuses him of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss. That case was originally supposed to go in front of a jury this month.

The most recent complications make clear how the justice system is struggling to balance fairness and speed against the backdrop of a calendar shaped by the presidential campaign. All four cases in recent weeks have, in one way or another, become further mired in procedural or substantive issues that have resulted in delays.

Timing is everything

ImageAlvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, offered a delay of up to 30 days of the hush money trial. Credit…Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

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