Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) And Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) Discuss About Their Take On The Hearing Delays Of Former President Trump

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Well, it certainly will delay some, but I am not in the camp that believes this will necessarily delay the trial until after the election. This opinion will come down by the end of June, and the district court judge has indicated that she will be ready to move very quickly. There could be a trial end of July, August, that would be before the election.

My concern, though, is similar to what Professor Tribe said, which is the way that they reformulated and refashioned the question presented takes it away from the specific facts of this case and broadens the question to a question of law. And if they decide that they are going to say, for example, that no, a president is not absolutely immune from official acts, they could send it back down to the district court or the court of appeals to say you need to make a finding as to whether or not this is an official act that he did, because the courts have to this point tried to avoid that question and just say, of course, he doesn't have immunity.

But the way the Supreme Court has teed it up may actually cause there to be further litigation, which, of course, would push it well past the November election.

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I think they should have started investigating the - Trump and his associates for the charge of conspiring to overturn the election before they did. They focused initially on the actual rioters who were violent and potential continuing dangers. Part of it may have been resource issues. But I was one of the early ones calling for them to start that investigation long before they did.

And I will say, that is part of the problem here, because yes, the Supreme Court could have and should move faster. I don't quite understand why they waited so long even just to rule - to set this schedule. Professor Tribe pointed out they could have taken it directly in December.

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But even if they weren't going to do that, they waited several weeks. But it wouldn't be in this situation if the Department of Justice had moved quicker ...

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... to investigate this case.

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