What Is Happening With Regard to the Timing of the Trial In the Florida Documents Case?

While the Anti-Trumpers claim that the Judge is in the tank for the former POTUS, it looks to me like SCO Jack Smith's failure to do his job as required by law is the cause for the delay.

After a long period of seeming inactivity, with many filings having been by the parties under seal, and with most pretrial hearing dates vacating — but with May 20, 2024, trial date remaining — the past two weeks have seen a series of rulings by the Judge on the Florida “Documents” case brought against former President Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith that have revealed several mini bombshell disclosures found in some pending motions. Most interesting to me are the motion to compel discovery premised, in part, on a claim that the “prosecution team” is broader and includes more federal agencies that the Smith SCO has been representing to the Court.

This issue is more consequential than is appreciated in most of the reporting so far on what the unsealed filings are now beginning to reveal.

Readers should keep in mind that some of these filings have been before the Court, under seal, for weeks/months. The Judge has known what is in them, as well as the responses filed to them by SCO Smith. It is only the public that is learning about their contents for the first time. The actions taken by the Judge over the past few months now must be reconsidered against the backdrop of what has been known to her, as compared to the criticism heaped upon her by the lefty legal beagles who have been relentlessly claiming she is shaping her decision-making so as to assist Trump by keeping the case from getting to trial before the election.

It was easy to make that allegation without the motions and responses as context for her decisions. There didn’t seem to be any obvious reason for her decisions to repeatedly postpone dates and deadlines — and eventually vacate many of them — while leaving the May 20 trial date in place. But I suspect she did that to demonstrate the absurdity of the SCO’s demand for a trial date less than one year after filing the case given the issues that have now developed — many created by the Smith’s SCO in the choices made to prioritize speed and expediency over thoughtful handling of complex matters in order to avoid the kinds of problems now being brought to light. These issues, are largely the result of the accelerated processes employed by the SCO, DOJ, and FBI in careening through the investigation in order to secure an indictment early enough to maybe be able to get the case to trial before the Nov. 2024 election.