in which televised criminal trials are the norm. and this trial would be televised in georgia. and so trump, who is afraid, like sunlight, the way vampires are afraid of sunlight and garlic, is going to do everything possible to try and have this case in federal court. you are absolutely right. if it is moved to federal court, it doesn t mean that it federal prosecutors and the united states justice department who will run the prosecution. it doesn t mean that a future president could pardon. but it does change the rules like televised trials and the like. i think, stephanie, that these removal actions will fail. it is true that there is a law, pass after the civil war, that gives federal employees in certain circumstances the right to move a federal case to federal court. but it doesn t apply here. i think there are three reasons. one is you have to be performing a federal function. and donald trump, as president, or mark meadows, as his chief of staff, are not performing a
but what i was talking about more was, as these cases proceed, and you actually end up in a trial and one of these four places, those are average shooter at the tree of life synagogue they spent weeks interviewing hundreds of people to be on that jury, just to find people who had not been exposed to the news so much that they were biased or had some other reason to be biased for or against that shooter. and so you can imagine in the trump case, you are going to end up with people who really don t have a bone to pick, politically, and probably haven t paid a whole lot of attention to the news. it s going to be hard to say if any of them convict him that this was always the work of nefarious partisan democrats. stuart, i got to thinking when i was watching that video real a moment ago, josh hawley, one of the lawmakers out there, calling this absurd. is there a reason a lot of these lawmakers is the reason they are not walking away from trump because a lot of them are tangled up
i think it depends on what you mean by resolved. so, i don t think a case will be completely done, meaning that there is a sentencing, and the appeal has been exhausted. but in terms of whether we can see a trial before the 2024 election, i think the answer is absolutely yes. i would expect that the january 6th trial that goes forward first will be jack smith s and not fani willis s. why? both clearly have a strong public interest in happening, because you are talking about a former president, and a current presidential candidate being charged with overturning the results of the election. there s a strong public interest in having that happen before voters have to cast their vote. votes. but fani willis has charged 19 people. that is going to take some time. discovery will take time. lots of motions from lots of different defendants i don t see that happening within six months, which is what he said last night during her press conference. whereas jack smith has one
meanwhile, some legal experts think that the georgia case could take a long time, because a number of the defendants and the complex racketeering charges. that s where donald trump himself, this, of course, is his fourth indictment since april. he is now facing a total of 91 felony charges. with that, let s get smarter, with the help of our leadoff panel tonight greg bluestein, who, i assure you, has been working overtime, a political reporter reporter for the atlanta journal-constitution, an msnbc legal contributor. former missouri senator and msnbc political analyst claire mccaskill, and kristy greenberg, a former federal prosecutor and former sdny criminal division deputy chief. claire, i turn to you first. you are also a former prosecutor. you know the law. mark meadows is now saying he wants a federal trial, because he was acting as a white house official. this guy gave up a safe and a very influential seat in the
said that all of the defendants charged in this case have until noon, a week from friday, august 25, to present themselves to face arraignment. we were wondering what the timeline was going to be for when donald trump might have to go to georgia to show up to be booked the way he has been booked the way he has been booked in these last three indictments, now we know, it will happen either this week or the end of next week. she said also on the the end of next week. she said also on the issue the end of next week. she said also on the issue of the end of next week. she said also on the issue of the - also on the issue of the timetable she would be hoping for a trial date within six months, but that it is up to thejudge to decide months, but that it is up to the judge to decide that. that is just further the judge to decide that. that isjust further stopping the judge to decide that. that is just further stopping the schedule for the former schedule for the former schedule into next