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It's clear that the federal prosecutions brought by Jack Smith will not continue, even if Trump does not pardon himself or cause Smith to be removed from office and replaced with a loyal alternative,
Syracuse University Law Professor Gregory Germain told Newsweek And there is every indication from Trump that he will attempt to remove Smith or accept his resignation, or more likely will pardon himself,
If for some reason Smith refuses to dismiss the cases, Trump can direct his attorney general to fire Smith,
former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek Trump will not be put on trial in Georgia until his term ends, and maybe never, depending on what the appellate courts say,
Dave Aronberg, state attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida, and a former Democratic state lawmaker, previously told Newsweek Politically, I think they would rather have the new Trump administration’s fingerprints on the demise of the cases,
he told the Reuters news agency Will there be any political appetite by the end of the second Trump administration to try him in Georgia? That’s a long time from the initial crimes,
We have never really seen before criminal cases that played out more on the political stage than in the courtroom,
said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor now in private practice He built a legal strategy around his political reality, and that meant he did things no regular defendant could do, or maybe would do – achieving incredible success in the cases against him,
said James Burnham, a Republican lawyer who worked in the Trump administration I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have”.
A key piece of evidence in this case is a recording of a phone call to Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which Trump said The bottom line is that Donald Trump will not be tried in the state of Georgia,
I agree with Professor Kreis,
I think what you did here and how you handled this and how you lied and covered up is horrible, the position you're about to take leading this country.
He described a potential statement form the bench as I think now the judge is probably going to give him some sort of dressing down,
New York lawyer Arthur Aidala told The American people have rendered their verdict on President Trump and decisively chosen him to lead the country for the next four years. They chose him to lead us with the full knowledge of the claims against him by prosecutors around the country,
It's more likely that Trump is fined and sentenced to no time and he has to appeal the conviction. This is all unprecedented,
Rahmani, the president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, added as a caveat What's Merchan going to do? He's not going to argue that the next president should go to state prison,
said Solomon, the former judge Any of those tracks can get you to the US Supreme Court pretty fast, if that's his goal,
Wouldn't you use that argument if you were president-elect? Of course he's going to argue that he's about to become leader of the free world, and this is a special case, something that's never happened before,
What he's going to try to do is adjourn, adjourn, adjourn,
while his lawyers challenge his indictment, trial, and conviction on presidential-immunity grounds, ... Solomon predicted He's definitely going to throw that around now,
said Charles Solomon, who was a Manhattan-based state supreme court justice for 33 years before his 2017 retirement
