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submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The criminal trial is currently scheduled to start on March 25.

The judge in former President Trump's criminal hush money case in New York City says Trump's trial will proceed on March 25 as planned.

In the case's final hearing before the trial gets underway, Judge Juan Merchan began the proceedings Thursday by denying Trump's motion to dismiss the case, saying the trial would begin March 25 with jury selection.

With Trump in the courtroom, his attorney Todd Blanche responded by arguing for a delay, saying Merchan was putting the former president "in an impossible position" by scheduling a trial in the midst of a series of "compressed and expedited schedules" elsewhere in the country, citing Trump's criminal cases in Washington, Georgia and Florida.

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[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 47 points 9 months ago

"Completely inappropriate," Blanche said. "Over half the population of this country believe the election was stolen. This trial is not going to solve that."

That's a lie. I don't think at any time a poll showed >50% believed the election was stolen. The most recent ones I can find show somewhere in the 30-40% range. It's still a ridiculously high number, but it's nowhere near "over half".

[-] gloss@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 9 months ago

He meant over half of Republicans. The rest of the population doesn't count.

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