Timing could benefit former President Trump as he faces down four criminal trials that are mired in controversy and legal obstacles while Election Day 2024 creeps closer, legal experts say.
“Does it eventually get so late in the election-campaign calendar that it would be too unseemly to start trial? I would hope so,” former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Andrew McCarthy, a Fox News contributor, wrote in an op-ed for National Review on Saturday.
“The administration of justice in criminal cases is an important national priority, but it’s not the only one – or, necessarily, the highest one. How much intrusion on politics by the justice system should Americans tolerate – particularly under circumstances in which the intrusion is being orchestrated by the administration of the incumbent president against his campaign opponent?”
McCarthy’s op-ed was in response to a federal judge suspending Trump’s trial involving Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election interference investigation indefinitely last week after it was set to begin on March 4. The move comes after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal to argue that the former president is granted immunity from prosecution for actions while in office.
TRUMP TRIAL DELAYED IN CASE STEMMING FROM SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH’S JAN 6 INVESTIGATION
Former President Trump waves to the crowd on the field during halftime in the Palmetto Bowl at Williams Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina, on Nov. 25, 2023. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
“A president of the United States must have full immunity,…
