Courts Hand Trump 'Big Win' and Another 'Victory'

in a legal victory for president Trump the judge who's currently overseeing the case over in Washington DC she has decided to pause all the court proceedings pending a decision from the US Supreme Court specifically judge Tanya chuin who is appointed to the bench by Barack Obama she has decided two days ago to pause the case until the US Supreme Court makes a determination as to whether or not Trump is covered under the presidential immunity Doctrine here is specifically what she wrote in her court order which was published on Wednesday of this week quote the court agrees with both parties that defend appeal automatically stays any further proceedings that would move this case towards trial or impose additional burdens of litigation on the defendant the court hereby stays the deadlines and proceedings scheduled by its pre-trial order she then went ahead and she clarified that while this order does put a pause and all the pre-trial deadlines it will not vacate them altogether quote if jurisdiction is returned to this court it will consistent with its duty to ensure both a speedy trial and fairness for all parties consider at that time whether to retain or continue the dat of any still future deadlines and proceedings including the trial scheduled for March 4th 2024 furthermore she also wrote that this pause on the legal proceedings does not lift the gag order that's been put in place although she did write that if the US Supreme Court says something different about that particular gag order she will abide accordingly quote nonetheless if he asks the court reviewing his immunity appeal to also take temporary jurisdiction over the enforcement of those measures and that Court agrees to do so this court of course will be bound by that decision now even though this is only a pause for Trump and his legal team this is actually a massive Victory evidenced by the fact that shortly after this ruling was issued a spokesperson for Trump's campaign he issued the following statement quote this is a big win for president Trump and our rule of law as it derails deranged Jack Smith's rush to judgment strategy of interfering in the 2024 presidential election in support of Joe Biden's campaign now the reason that they consider this a victory for president Trump is actually three-fold first of all right now president Trump is in the middle of a primary election cycle with voting set to start in less than a month and so by having the judge put a pause in the court proceedings in at least one of the cases well president Trump can transfer his focus and his attention to the campaign secondly president Trump's legal team have been trying to push back the trial date in this particular case for a while now arguing that because of the huge amount of Discovery material that they need to go through they just quite literally need more time for your reference Trump's legal team they are planning to review somewhere around 13 million pages of documents quote under the current schedule jury selection is imminent defense attorneys meaning Trump's attorneys are argue that in the meantime they have yet to finish reviewing the 13 million Pages they've received and make follow-up requests the defense attorneys argue that this infringes on President Trump's due process rights and then the third reason that this can be considered a victory for president Trump is the fact that his legal team has all the incentive in the world to push this trial as far back as possible with the ultimate hope for them being to push the trial start date beyond the actual presidential election that's because if president Trump were to win the 2024 election then he would not be able to go to trial as a sitting president and therefore if Trump's legal team is able to successfully push the trial date until after the election and then Trump gets elected then effectively the trial will be postponed for another 4 years at least now for their part as we discussed in a previous episode Jack Smith and his team of prosecutors are adamant that this trial start on March 4th one day before the Super Tuesday elections their official argument is that this schedule is necessary to preserve the people's right to a speedy trial which is exactly why Jack Smith and his team essentially skipped the typical appeals process and they went directly to the US suprem Court to have them decide the presidential immunity question we again covered all that in a previous episode however since then well judge Tanya chken has decided to place a pause on the case itself which as we laid out even though it's only a pause this decision favors president Trump because this is all really just a battle over time if you'd like to go through these court documents for yourself I'll throw the links to them they'll be down in the description box below and now let's head on over to the state of Michigan where president Trump has just been dealt another legal victory in the court of appeals specifically Michigan was among the many states where lawsuits were attempting to block president Trump from appearing on the ballot the rationale for all these different lawsuits was that since Trump quote unquote engaged in an Insurrection he should therefore be prohibited from holding office under the 14th Amendment however all these different cases are falling one after the other with the most recent example taking place in Michigan where just yesterday the Michigan court of appeals ruled that President Trump is in fact eligible to appear on the Michigan primary ballot here's what a panel of three judges wrote in their official order quote nothing in the statutory framework that controls the process for presidential primary elections confers any Authority on the Secretary of State to make eligibility determinations or to refuse to place a candidate on that particular ballot based on an eligibility determination now it is worth noting here that this court of appeals made a special point to decline to rule on the issue of insurrection and instead they dismissed the lawsuit on technical grounds but the result is the same as per this decision president Trump can appear on the Michigan primary ballot which is as a result that President Trump's team well they embraced calling it a legal Victory and highlighting the fact that none of these different ballot access lawsuits have succeeded anywhere in the country here's what a spokesperson for the Trump campaign said following this ruling quote president Trump remains undefeated against these frivolous legal claims and has never been in a stronger position to win next year's election we look forward to the Swift dismissals of all remaining ballot challenge cases and even bigger wins for the American people in 2024 now of course the people pushing this case forward will likely appeal this decision all the way up to the Michigan state supreme court and once they do we'll give you an update on that otherwise just for your reference with this case in Michigan officially dismissed there are still 14 other different states across the country which have these ballot access lawsuits playing themselves out in court thus far none have succeeded but you never know which is why my team and I are keeping an eye on all of them and will bring you any developments as they come about which just as in aside this is really a funny way to cover an election because normally an election would be covered by reporters going to rallies going to debates listing out policy differences between the candidates and so on things like that but this year it appears that covering the 2024 election will just involve keeping track of all these different lawsuits that President Trump has lobbied against them what a time to be alive if You' like to read this decision from the Michigan court of appeals I'll throw a link to the pdf version down in the description box below which I should mention is that description box right below those like And 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