Happening now, two major breaking developments have Donald Trumps legal cases the federal judge overseeing is classified documents, trial, denying one of his motions to throw out the indictment were standing by for a ruling on the former president s remaining effort to toss the charges. Also breaking trouble appears to be on track to score another delay in court this time in new york, manhattan prosecutors theres announcing theyre not opposed to pushing back is Hush Money Trial potentially until late april and theres news out there on the Campaign Trail tonight. President Biden Making Another Stop on his tour of Battleground States as Vice President harris baza, historic visit to an abortion provider, becoming the highest tracking us official to do so welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer a year in the Situation Room the skis cnn Breaking News, lets get to the Breaking News of federal courts slaps down one of Donald Trumps attempts to di
Im Arlette Saenz at the white house. And this is cnn cnns, Breaking News i knew are in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington. This morning. Were following all the reparations from the monumental ruling in the criminal case against donald trump In Georgia The Judge has just ruled Fulton County District Attorney, fani willis, can continue Prosecuting Trump and his allies in the Georgia Election subversion case. But she may only stay only state if the special prosecutor, nathan wade, who had a relationship with willis is removed, if willis and her team had been disclosed hello, fight, it would almost certainly have delayed a trial until after the president ial election in november. That is something trump desperately wanted in all of this. And as other legal cases as well, cnns Nick Valencia is just outside the Fulton County courthouse for acidic. Can you walk us through this mornings historic ruling . Wolf . It was historic, Monumental Decision Fani Willis getting a technical w
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A conflict because the big question here is whether there was an actual conflict. The defendants were alleging that fani willis and not only that she had this romantic relationship with a lead prosecutor on the trump case . Case, but then she also benefited financially and he had to decide the judge had to sort of do this analysis. Is it enough that its just looks bad, but theres an appearance of a conflict or did they need to prove to the defendants at trump and his codefendants need to prove that there was an actual conflict now, again, i say that day fani willis can stay on this case. It also appears that the judge is saying that this appearance issue needs to be addressed before this can go forward. So this appears to be a pretty nuanced a ruling, but the headline is that the District Attorney at her office can stay on this case, but we continue to read to learn more about exactly what the judge is saying, about how you need to address the appearance of impropriety right . Paula re
are inherent in marbury versus madison are like delivering a seal when requested, because there is a separate statute, and the secretary of the state had two of the hats on and he was on one hand the direct agent of the president, and that could never be examinable by the courts, but on the other hand, the original statute had imposed all of the purely ministerial duties that had to do with the recordkeeping and delivering of documents and if you had a land deed that had a seal on it, and the person asked for it no, discretion at all, but the take-care clause, there is no statute that could impose on the president, a, a mandatory duty to engage, and the notion that when the president is meeting with the department of justice and enforce federal fraud statutes and that being ministerial strikes me as insupportable. well, i think that you are missing what i am asking. which is, i think that it is paradoxical to say that his constitutional duty to take care of the laws be fait