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
Among our most sacred and among the most valuable and among the most central to our democracy. it isn t wrong to subbed in such a sen tiff case as they we should have our radar up, a heightened awareness of the ways that political speech and these sorts of accused crimes intersect. the nuance that s required to make sure that people understand you can t just mouth the words freedom of speech and this them be an all-purpose excuse for criminality is a difficult amount of nuance to convey. it s particularly difficult in circumstances in which we re getting sort of a firehose of misinformation on this front. keeping it front and center and make sure we talk about what the doctrine protects will be really important going forward.