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Judge Cannon shouldn't be accommodating Trump's run for office in any way
...it's not the Court's responsibility to pave the way for an accused defendant to run for public office.
Trump chose to put himself in this position, knowing full well that he was at risk for more than one indictment when he announced his run for the presidency. He has a constitutional right to run for office, but he also has an obligation right now to the will and schedule of the courts which supersedes his ambitions for the presidency.
Trump can just drop out until his legal obligations are complete. No court should be made to account for, or alter their course for whatever he believes is his prerogative or need to perform in the election. At least that's what he said about Hillary Clinton:
Trump said in 2016 that a president under indictment would “cripple the operations of our government” and create an “unprecedented constitutional crisis” – years before he himself was indicted on federal charges while running for a second term as president.
Trump made the comments nearly seven years ago about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“We could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial,” Trump said during a November 5, 2016, campaign rally in Reno, Nevada, reviewed by CNN’s KFile. “It would grind government to a halt.”
“If she were to win, it would create an unprecedented Constitutional crisis that would cripple the operations of our government,” he said. “She is likely to be under investigation for many years, and also it will probably end up – in my opinion – in a criminal trial. I mean, you take a look. Who knows? But it certainly looks that way.”
“She has no right to be running, you know that,” Trump said. “No right.”
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/politics/kfile-trump-president-indictment-halt-government/index.html
There's no reason why a court should accommodate his presidential run, any more than he believed they should for Hillary. He may have the right to run, but no court should feel compelled to make that easy for him, or smooth out the consequences of his own actions which led him there.
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