The Department of Justice may be reluctant to take a case against Trump so close to the presidential election.
Prosecutors may be reluctant to bring a case against former President Donald Trump so close to the 2024 presidential election, an attorney has said.Joyce Vance was reacting to the surprise request by prosecutors on Thursday to delay the Republican presidential nominee's election fraud case by three weeks. She suggested that the Department of Justice may be applying a 'special rule' to avoid going to trial before the election.
' He added that prosecutors are free any day after August 30, but that Trump's team was unavailable on September 6 and the week of September 16.Judge Tanya Chutkan had asked both sides to explain on Friday how the case should proceed after the Supreme Court issued a broad interpretation of presidential immunity that has made prosecutors' case more difficult.
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