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Prosecutors in Donald Trump's Georgia racketeering case say that the trial would take four months and include approximately 150 witnesses.

Mr Trump and 18 others are charged with a conspiracy to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results.

A date for the trial has not yet been set, although prosecutors hope to begin on 23 October.

The former president and his co-defendants have all denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.

In court on Wednesday, state prosecutor Nathan Wade said that the expected timeline does not account for jury selection, which could potentially add months to the process.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee said he hopes to decide questions regarding the trial's schedule by "either the end of this week or early next week".

All 19 co-defendants in the case have pleaded not guilty and waived their right to in-person arraignments, which were due to take place on Wednesday.

During Wednesday's court session, Judge McAfee also heard arguments on whether some of the defendants could sever their cases from the wider racketeering, or Rico, case.

Attorneys for Kenneth Chesebro sought to sever the counts against him, as did attorneys for Sidney Powell, a former Trump lawyer, who has also asked for a speedy trial - a constitutional right in the US.

Both will now go on trial together on 23 October after Judge McAfee denied a motion to sever their cases from one another.

In court, he said that he does not believe that "the severance for Mr Cheseboro or Ms Powell is necessary to achieve a fair determination of the guilt or innocence for either defendant in this case".

He added that two separate trials would "inconvenience" jurors and complicate scheduling.

In total, six of the defendants in the case have sought to sever their cases, including Mr Trump and ex-Georgia Republican chair David Shafer.

Other defendants are seeking to have their cases moved to federal court. A federal judge has yet to decide on the issue, known by the legal term of "removal".

Mr Chesebro and Ms Powell's trial is slated to begin on 23 October - the same date being sought by district attorney Fani Willis for the other 17 defendants.

Judge McAfee, however, said it seemed "a bit unrealistic" to try all the defendants together in October, noting that "we've got less than two months to figure this out".

In court, Mr Chesebro's attorney Manubir Arora argued that the far-reaching racketeering case would mean that his client would have to be in court for "weeks, if not months" of testimony unrelated to the specific charges against him.

Additionally, Mr Arora said that Ms Powell - who famously vowed to "release the Kraken" after Mr Trump's electoral defeat - was "sort of on a lark on her own" and not connected to Mr Chesebro.

Speaking to CNN after the court hearing, Mr Chesebro's second attorney, Scott Grubman, accused the government of "weaponising" the Rico statute to "connect three or four conspiracies into one".

Prosecutors allege that Mr Trump and his co-defendants were involved in a multi-pronged effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state, culminating with a phone call in which Mr Trump pressured the state's secretary of state to "recalculate" the vote tally.

ram dass in hell posted:

trumescent at the prospect of a 4 month shitshow

Qurnah posted:

does he have to be there

like ever

Qurnah posted:

that's not fair

i don't have four months left of parental leave

Slumfrog posted:

Qurnah posted:

it was worse he said "even hitler didn't gas his own people"

bebop esq posted:

I don't think so but I could be wrong (a rare occurrence)

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The Trump administration is proposing to lift court-imposed limits on how long it can hold children in immigration detention.

Under proposed regulations set to be published in the Federal Register on Friday, the administration seeks to replace the Flores settlement, a decades-old agreement that dictates how long the government can hold migrant children, and under what conditions.

The administration wants to detain migrant families together for as long as their immigration cases are pending. The proposed regulations will satisfy the "basic purpose" of Flores, the administration argues, by making sure that children are treated with "dignity, respect, and special concern for their particular vulnerability as minors."

"Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the Department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country," said Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in a statement.

Shifty Nipples posted:

Slumfrog posted:

yeah i think that was the one. it's sublime, the progression from puzzlement to disbelief to open mouthed incredulity this woman goes through as she tries to process the undreamed of levels of what the actual gently caress??? in what she is hearing. its wonderful, a perfect summary of the moment everyone truly came face to face with the new reality of trump and how loving wild poo poo was about to get

you can almost hear the crack ping. there would be many more to follow

e: beaten hard, but i do love this gif so

UFOTacoMan posted:

me not saying "dune"

UFOTacoMan posted:

Bearjew posted:

who is presiden

Bearjew posted:

wow how could you say that about donal dump

titty_baby_ posted:

No, they are supposed to suffer by design, stop this

Plinkey posted:

lol owned

https://twitter.com/rparloff/status/1699751415076266140

euphronius posted:

I have no idea why you would not plea every time

reignofevil posted:

Taking the long gamble that Trump wins reelection and pardons the faithful is my guess.


Which, lmao.

Nonsense posted:

https://twitter.com/Golden_Phoenix/status/1699825557406433420?s=20

pink noise posted:

yea, and profitable. none of these guys have jobs, right? they're influencers beholden to their audience (or rich patrons) for donations

the milk machine posted:

when do they say that

ive never heard the anthem introduced like that?

petit choux posted:

It's loyalty to Trump.

Vim Fuego posted:

MODS?!?

alnilam posted:

Most republicans are still steaming mad that a black man was president

alnilam posted:

CaptainBeefart posted:

Don't forget he's Muslim: as all hell.

Slumfrog posted:

lol iirc nearly all of his pardons were doled out in the last weeks/days of the trump supremacy, almost all of them went to people convicted on fraud and/or corruption charges, and nearly of those pardons were basically sold openly to the highest bidder by trump aides and lobbyists

External Organs posted:

Thanks for copying this out of your Florida history book.

the milk machine posted:

the president can't order me to do jack poo poo, commander in chief or not

Good Citizen posted:

uhhh… let me be queer

Vim Fuego posted: