Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
Up. the supreme court has made clear that it s able to be punished, even though the main tool is speech. the ddoj here is going to argue that trump s case is the same. it will point out that the indictment here is for participating in a large-scale conspiracy, an electoral fraud, and for entering into agreements with other people who were a part of planning that criminal activity. we wouldn t expect that some of the evidence there would be communication, would be speech, but that wouldn t involve any imposition on anybody s freedom of expression. the doj is for sure going to want to be cautious here, and i think they have, recognizing it s a politically sensitive case, but a great body of first amendment doctrine and all of