The conviction of former President Donald Trump on all 34 counts in New York state may mark the end of the trial phase in the hush money case, but three indictments continue to weigh on the former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Trump still faces fees in two cases filed in federal courts in South Florida and Washington, D. C. , through special counsel Jack Smith and in a lawsuit in state court led by Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis. He is expected to be sentenced in the New York case on July 11.
The former president will appeal his conviction in the secret trial, his attorney Todd Blanche told CNN, a procedure that can take months or even years.
Other cases involving the former president are moving slowly, and Trump has sought to delay any trial until after the November presidential election. If he wins a second term in the White House, Trump could simply order the Justice Department to eliminate federal fees or, if convicted of federal charges before then, he can simply try to pardon himself, but that has never been done and he may simply be prosecuted.
Here is the prestige of the remaining 3 cases:
In a case filed in South Florida federal court, Trump is charged with 40 counts stemming from his alleged mishandling of sensitive government documents after leaving the White House and his efforts to obstruct the Justice Department’s investigation. Two other people have been indicted along with Trump, his aide Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago asset manager Carlos de Oliveira. All 3 defendants have pleaded not guilty.
The trial in the case was scheduled to begin on May 20, but U. S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the process, postponed it indefinitely. Cannon, Trump’s appointee, cited pretrial motions, issues with how classified evidence would be used in the case. case and other pre-trial and pre-trial provisions to justify the postponement of the trial.
The ruling has yet to rule on several requests filed by Trump and his co-defendants to have charges brought against them dropped in February. The former president argued that the indictment should be dismissed based on procedural misconduct, vindictive prosecution and presidential immunity. Smith and his team suggested Cannon reject Trump’s motions and dismissed allegations about the lawsuits.
Cannon has continued to unveil files that shed light on the proceedings that conducted the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after the end of his presidency. Other documents may be made public in the coming months.
Smith’s second federal lawsuit, this one in Washington, D. C. , looks at Trump’s alleged plot to oppose the force movement after the 2020 presidential election. He charged four charges in August 2023 and pleaded not guilty.
U. S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over the case, scheduled the trial to begin on March 4. But the process has been on hold since December when Trump appealed adverse rulings that determined he was not entitled to full immunity from federal prosecution.
Chutkan and a unanimous three-judge panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Trump is not immune from felons’ fees through presidential immunity. Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, which heard arguments in April on whether a former president enjoyed presidential immunity for allegedly official acts performed at the White House.
The High Court has yet to issue a decision, but is expected to do so in the coming weeks. If Trump wins, it would end Smith’s prosecution. But if the Supreme Court were to side with the special counsel, it would pave the way. for the resumption of the proceedings.
Most likely, some justices would recognize some degree of immunity from federal prosecution for the official acts of a former president, but indicated that they could simply send the dispute back to lower courts for further proceedings on whether Trump’s alleged moves around the 2020 election took place within the country. Scope of your term as president or personal citizen.
A ruling requiring lower courts to conduct additional investigations would make it possible for a trial to be held before the presidential election in November.
A Fulton County grand jury indicted Trump and 18 allies in August 2023 in a wide-ranging extortion case stemming from an alleged scheme to overturn the effects of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.
Trump was first charged with thirteen counts, but three of them were dismissed by Fulton County Senior Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing the case. Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Willis welcomes the dismissal of some of the charges.
Of the original 18 co-defendants, 4 pleaded guilty after reaching plea deals with prosecutors.
A trial date has not yet been set in the Fulton County case, and proceedings have been derailed for months after one of Trump’s co-defendants, Michael Roman, tried to get Willis and his workplace out of the case. Roman accused Willis and Nathan Wade, a special prosecutor hired to work on the investigation, of having an off-kilter romantic date from which Willis benefited financially.
Trump and seven others joined Roman’s efforts to disqualify Willis from the case and dismiss the indictment.
Willis and Wade admitted they were romantically involved, but denied that Willis benefited financially. Both said their relationship began after Wade was hired in November 2021 and ended in the summer of 2023. McAfee ultimately rejected the request to exclude Willis and his workplace. But he said Wade had to resign, which he did.
Trump and his co-defendants appealed McAfee’s decision, and the Georgia Court of Appeals accepted the decision.
The former president tried to dismiss the indictment on many grounds, adding that he has absolute immunity from prosecution and that the fees violate the First Amendment. In April, McAfee rejected Trump’s proposal to eliminate fees on the basis of the First Amendment. Trump and his allies must appeal the order.