Breaking, Judge denies Trump’s latest attempt to delay hush money case
For the third time in three days, a New York appellate judge has denied an attempt by former President Donald Trump to delay his hush money trial.
Trump on Wednesday asked a New York appeals court for emergency relief to stop the criminal trial scheduled to begin Monday from going ahead so he could appeal a lower court’s ruling on presidential immunity and have the judge recused from the case.
It took Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer just minutes after hearing arguments to reject the interim motion to stay the trial.
CNN didn’t say how many minutes exactly, but in yesterday’s appellate case that Trump lost, it took the judge all of 12 minutes. (Probably because she had to take 11 minutes to stop laughing.)
Even the New York Times has caught on: Trump Loses His Third Try in a Week to Delay Manhattan Trial
The episode underscored Mr. Trump’s increasing desperation to delay the trial, and his scattershot approach to doing so.
Stalling is one of the former president’s favorite legal strategies, in the Manhattan case and all his many legal entanglements. But even for Mr. Trump, it was an audacious move: taking legal action against a judge and burying an appeals court in long-shot delay tactics.
And the circus might continue. . . .
Nearly a dozen legal experts contacted for this article strained to recall any other defendant filing three emergency appeals in three days. Most called it unprecedented; one called it “silliness.” And at this rate, with five days to go before jury selection and a smattering of other legal issues still unresolved, Mr. Trump might not be done.
The Orange Menace is a’running mighty scared about now.