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4 verified reports published on April 12, 2024.
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The bigger lesson from April 11 is that Trump’s favorite tactic — delay, distort, and hope the calendar bails him out — was starting to fail in public. Judges were tightening the vise, and that meant the campaign’s entire operation had to live with the consequences instead of filing them away.
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On April 11, the Manhattan hush-money trial was still scheduled to begin on April 15. Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order, imposed March 26 and expanded April 1, remained in place as Trump kept trying to slow the case down.
By April 11, 2024, the Supreme Court had not ruled on Donald Trump’s immunity claim. The case was still on the merits calendar, the government had filed its response brief on April 8, and oral argument was set for April 25, keeping Trump’s broad immunity theory under a bright legal spotlight.
A New York judge denied Donald Trump’s request to adjourn his hush-money trial on April 12, while a separate appellate ruling two days earlier also rejected a delay bid. Jury selection was set for April 15.
Trump’s classified-documents prosecution had already been thrown into disarray by delays and legal wrangling, but the case remained a live liability on April 11 as another major pillar of his legal exposure. Even without a fresh explosive ruling that day, the continued instability of the case underscored how much Trump’s legal calendar was driven by defense delays and judicial hesitation rather than any clean exoneration.