2023-12-23 06:00:00
Trump, at an event in Waterloo (Iowa) on December 19. SCOTT MORGAN | REUTERS
The US Supreme Court must decide on the former president’s immunity in the Capitol assault case
23 dic 2023 . Updated at 05:00 a.m.
The special prosecutor, Jack Smith, who is leading the investigation against Donald Trump motivated by the assault on the Capitol in January 2021, this week asked the US Supreme Court to decide as soon as possible whether the former president enjoyed immunity when the events occurreds. For now, without the decision of the highest court, the trial remains suspended. Its start, proposed for March 2024, depends on the Supreme Court. It could even end up lasting beyond the elections. With weeks to go before the election year begins, it seems that Trump’s exceptional situation will completely define the political life of the country in 2024.
It will not be the only occasion in which the former president’s legal problems, his campaign agenda and the appointments on the electoral calendar overlap. Before the Republican primaries begin on January 15 with the Iowa caucus, A New York judge will decide on the 11th the sentence imposed against the magnate, his children and his companies for inflating the values of their assets.
Just one day after the Iowa caucuses, the federal civil trial will begin in Manhattan in which Trump is accused of defame the writer E. Jean Carroll. The judge has already determined that the Republican defamed Carroll, now a jury will decide if he has to pay the 10 million dollars requested by the prosecution.
He March 4 The trial against Trump for his involvement in the assault on the Capitol will begin. It will depend on the Supreme Court’s decision, and may have to be postponed. If not, start one day before March 5, Super Tuesday, in which Republicans from fifteen different states are called to choose their party’s nominee for the presidential election. Furthermore, on the 25th of the same month it should be opened andThe trial against Trump in New York. The tycoon is accused of falsifying business records to hide the payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for silencing a relationship between the two.
He May 20th will start in Miami The trial in which the former president is accused of being in illegal possession of classified government documents in his Mar-a-lago mansion.
In mid-July (from the 15th to the 18th) the Republican National Convention will take place in Milwaukee in which the Republican presidential candidate will be formally elected. Two weeks later, on August 5, it should start trial in Georgia who accuses the man who could already be the Republican candidate for the White House of trying to interfere with the electoral results in that state.
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