In a frantic last-minute attempt to derail a trial that threatens to destroy Donald Trump’s corporate empire, the former president’s lawyers have turned the heat on the judge overseeing this case—by suing him directly.

Edit: Unfortunately the tactic worked:

An appellate judge has taken the remarkable step of hitting pause on the New York Attorney General’s upcoming bank fraud trial against Donald Trump—granting the former president’s request in a surprise hearing on Thursday that was closed off to the public.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-turns-new-york-ag-case-against-judge-arthur-f-engoron?ref=wrap

  • mkhopper@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can this shitshow please be over? I mean, just when you thought things couldn’t get any stranger, another day comes around.

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      1 year ago

      It’s not strange. His whole goal has been to delay. He can’t win this, but it seems it will work to delay.

    • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I think we really have to make contingency plans for the USAs fall to fascism. All these old guys in congress are selling us out.

      Canada is already doing it