"It was booked more than two years in advance to ensure a date certain to celebrate lead counsel's 70th birthday and 45th wedding anniversary."

A state appeals court on Wednesday quietly denied a request by Donald Trump’s lead attorney to push back some key proceedings in the case aimed at dismissing the former president’s racketeering (RICO) and election subversion charges in Georgia.

In a terse, one-sentence-long order, the Georgia Court of Appeals declined to reschedule oral arguments — ruling against a request by Trump’s attorney, Steve Sadow, to grant a continuance for him to accommodate long-ago scheduled international travel plans.

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Fucking rare courtroom W to schedule this wealthy insurrectionist with the same strictness as a regular defendant. “Oh we actually have a little vacation planned that day,” fuck off. Court is in session.