Trump legal cases tracker: What’s next

Former President Trump is embroiled in a tangled web of legal troubles that are expected to play out in courts across the country this year as he campaigns to return to the White House.

Consolidated by early state wins, Trump continues to campaign for the 2024 presidential election as the undisputed front-runner in the Republican primary, and his criminal trial is rapidly approaching.

The former president’s first criminal trial is scheduled to begin in late March, and the remaining three charges could go to a jury later this year. Trump has pleaded not guilty to a total of 91 criminal charges.

Additionally, he has already been ordered to pay more than $500 million in multiple civil lawsuits.

Here, we will show the status of each criminal case and future developments.

Georgia election interference case

what is that: Trump, along with 18 other defendants, was charged with engaging in an illegal conspiracy to overturn Trump’s loss in the state’s 2020 election. Each defendant was charged under the Georgia Racketeering Act and faces additional charges. Four of the defendants then entered into plea deals that included an agreement to testify truthfully in future cases.

What’s next: The case took a major turn with the revelation that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) had a romantic relationship with the top prosecutor on the case. The judge is considering defense arguments that the relationship constitutes a conflict of interest and should disqualify the prosecutor, an argument Willis rejects. The judge is scheduled to issue a ruling after hearing closing arguments on March 1. If the case moves forward, the judge will return to addressing the defendant’s remaining pretrial motions.

Five major milestones:

• 8/14/23 — District Attorney Fani Willis (D) announces long-awaited indictment.
• 8/24/23 — Trump is incarcerated at the Fulton County Jail and makes history as the first president, current or former, to have his mug shot taken.
• October 24, 2023 — Jenna Ellis becomes the fourth defendant to plead guilty, shortly after a plea deal struck by fellow former Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro. Georgia bail bondsman Scott Hall took a plea deal a few weeks ago.
• January 8, 2024 — Willis and Special Counsel Nathan Wade are accused of extramarital affairs by defendant Michael Roman, increasing scrutiny of the historic prosecution.
• 2/15/2024 — Willis takes the stand in an explosive trial over her relationship with Wade, defending her reputation and pleading with the judge not to remove her from the case.

2020 Federal Election Interference Case

what is that: President Trump is accused of engaging in multiple criminal conspiracies to remain in power after losing the 2020 presidential election. He is accused of pressuring state legislators, creating false electoral rolls, using the Justice Department, pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence, and capitalizing on the January 6th Capitol riot. He has pleaded not guilty to four felonies.

What’s next: The Supreme Court will decide what to do with President Trump’s request for immunity, which has been rejected by every judge who has considered it. But Trump’s appeal has postponed the trial date, and the former president is exhausting all options as time runs out. Meanwhile, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith aims to move things along as quickly as possible. The Supreme Court could proceed in multiple ways, and its decisions would have a major impact on whether Trump gets a trial before the election.

Five major milestones:

• 8/1/23 — Special Counsel Jack Smith indicts Trump
• 8/3/23 — Trump appears in court for arraignment and pleads not guilty.
• 1/23/24 — The Court of Appeals declines to reconsider President Trump’s challenge to the gag order in his election interference case before the en banc court. The order was largely upheld by an appeals court panel in December, but the terms were narrowed.
• February 2, 2024 – President Chutkhan officially postpones Trump’s trial date, which was scheduled for March 4 last year, amid the presidential immunity appeal.
• February 6, 2012 – A federal appeals panel rules that as a former president, Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution. Days later, he asked the Supreme Court to keep the federal election overturn trial on hold while he appeals the ruling.

federal secret document case

what is that: After leaving the White House at the end of his first term in 2021, President Trump faces 40 charges for mishandling classified records and attempting to obstruct the government’s recovery of those records. There is. The files are said to have contained information on national defense and weapons. secret markings. The government’s recovery of records included an unprecedented FBI search of his property in Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

What’s next: The judge has so far rejected attempts to postpone the May 2024 trial date, but plans to revisit the trial schedule at a status conference on March 1. President Trump has also filed multiple motions to dismiss pending lawsuits.

Five major milestones:

New York hush money case

what is that: Trump is charged with 34 felonies for falsifying business records in connection with payments he made to then-fixer Michael Cohen during the 2016 campaign. Prosecutors say the redemption was a payment Cohen made to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump. Prosecutors allege that Trump was improperly designated as the legal recipient of the payments in an effort to hide damaging information from the public ahead of that year’s presidential election. Mr. Trump has maintained his innocence.

What’s next: The case, the first indictment of President Trump, is scheduled to go to trial on March 25. Before that, acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Juan Melchian will have to rule on whether President Trump can block key witnesses from presenting evidence in the state’s case. It is unclear at this time whether a public hearing will be scheduled to decide the matter.

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Updated February 27th 10:08am