Sign the petition: STOP the delays in Donald Trump's criminal trials!
Dear MoveOn member,
Bad news: Disgraced former president Donald Trump's infuriating plan to delay his criminal trials until after November's election is working. Last week, there were two more setbacks, with corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon postponing a trial that was supposed to start next week, followed by the Georgia Court of Appeals announcing its decision to consider a bogus Trump appeal to try to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from leading the prosecution.1 And the Supreme Court is dragging its feet in making a decision on Trump's immunity case, preventing the Department of Justice's trial against him from starting. The majority of people in America want verdicts from the Trump trials before Election Day—and they deserve to have full transparency before heading to the polls.2
Trump is hoping that by delaying his trials, he can obscure valuable information from the public, secure a win for his bid for president, and then claim presidential immunity or pardon himself as a way to evade any accountability for the 88 criminal charges that have been filed against him.3 And the odds are stacked in his favor, with Judge Cannon—a judge he appointed—overseeing the federal case regarding classified documents, and the far-right-stacked Supreme Court agreeing to hear Trump's "absolute immunity" appeal to delay a trial on his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.4
Time is running out. The Supreme Court must reject Trump's horrifying "absolutely immunity" appeal by NEXT WEEK in order to stay on track and move forward with his federal criminal trial for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election.5
There's no excuse for Judge Cannon to delay Trump's classified documents trial, which was set to begin next week on May 20. The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin wrote, "Whether Cannon … is acting out of bias, incompetence or fear of trying a high-profile case, she has justified the recusal argument that many experts made when she was first assigned."6 More than 126,000 MoveOn members agree, signing a petition calling for Judge Cannon to recuse herself from the case.7 But as long as she remains, she—and any other judge overseeing Trump's trials and appeals—has a duty and responsibility to deliver a swift and fair trial for the American people.
The Supreme Court has proven time and time again that they can rule with expediency, and we demand they do so now. Waiting any longer is a choice on their part to assist Trump's plan of evading all accountability ahead of the election. The truth is, the highest court of our country never should have accepted Trump's bogus immunity appeal, after a lower court denied him "absolute immunity." They must reject this undemocratic claim and do so immediately. There is no time to waste—our democracy depends on it.
Our criminal and legal system has never been just—there has always been a separate system for the wealthy and powerful. And this hypocrisy is on full display with the Trump trials. As New York University law professor Melissa Murray said in an MSNBC interview, "No other defendant in America has been allowed to play out the system in the way that [Trump] has."8 Nobody is above the law, but Trump is manipulating any loophole he can find to delay his trials with hopes that he can ultimately evade any accountability. We can't sit by while he further corrupts our judicial system. We must come together to demand our judicial branch live up to its responsibility to the American people.
Thanks for all you do.
–Aliya, Mona, Kelsey, Chris, and the rest of the team
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