A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on September 8, 2023.
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The common thread on September 8 was simple: Trump-world kept trying to run out the clock, and the courts were not especially interested in playing along. Georgia got closer to boxing the defendants into state court, and New York made clear the fraud case was headed for a judge, not a jury, and on a real timetable. For a political operation that still likes to talk like this is all theater, the legal system kept behaving like it was a case.
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A federal judge denied Mark Meadows’s bid to move the Georgia election case into federal court, undercutting a tactic Trump and other defendants hoped could reshape the fight. The ruling matters because it signals how hard it may be for Trump-aligned defendants to pry the case out of Fulton County and into a friendlier arena.
On Sept. 8, 2023, Judge Arthur Engoron set a nonjury trial in New York’s civil fraud case against Donald Trump to begin Oct. 2, with the schedule running through Dec. 22, 2023, if needed. The trial itself had not started yet.