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Hugo Lowell

Trump 2024 trials in limbo as supreme court becomes entangled

Donald Trump Joseph Fischer Stanley Brand Jack Smith the Supreme Court United States DC Michael Dreeben Enron
The timing and scope of the special counsel’s case against Trump could be dramatically altered just months before the election.
The timing and scope of the special counsel’s case against Donald Trump could be dramatically altered just months before the election. Photograph: Vincent Alban/Reuters

When Donald Trump was indicted in multiple criminal cases this summer, the conventional wisdom was that the former US president could spend vast amounts of time during the height of the 2024 presidential campaign stuck in courtrooms for back-to-back trials in New York, Florida and Washington.

But the reality is that with the federal 2020 election interference case on hold pending appeals, and repeated delays pushing the classified documents case behind schedule by several months, for instance, Trump may find himself in courtrooms far less than expected.

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