BREAKING: Manafort & Gates trial will not start May 14 as Mueller requested, prob Sept/Oct instead

[highplainsdem]

No story yet, just tweets:

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Editing to add the link to a DU thread about a TPM article about this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141962694

[spanone]

1. why the hell would a judge say 'it's too soon'?

[highplainsdem]

2. See this tweet for the answer:

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The latest Manafort/Gates court appearance is over. A lot of things happened, I'm going to break them down into pieces: First, no trial date yet. They're not as far along with discovery and motions as the judge thought they'd be by now, so judge said a May date is unlikely.

[spanone]

3. seems like that would be the prosecutors call.....?

[Yonnie3]

4. The defendants get discovery, so the judge would consider what their lawyers say. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

5. No.

Defense counsel also has a say in what is a reasonable court date.

[spanone]

6. 👍🏼

[jberryhill]

11. No. Trial dates are routinely pushed back for a number of reasons

Most often, it is the defense seeking additional time to obtain and review discovery. But what has happened here is mundane and routine.

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Theyre gonna push it past the 2018 election

[OnDoutside]

12. +1

[davekriss]

13. Yup

[meow2u3]

8. Superseding indictments, maybe?

[4139]

9. When in doubt, delay, delay, delay....

They’ll try to push it till 2025 if they can

[lunatica]

10. The closer it is to the elections the better

All that shit coming up just before the elections will definitely affect the elections.

Manafort is already a sleaze who is hard put to find anyone who could possibly like him so when the trial brings out his putrid underbelly no one will be able to look away. The disgust will be reflected in the elections.