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2 verified reports published on April 24, 2024.
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The big theme of April 24 was simple: Trump kept arguing that the cases should go away, but the cases kept behaving like they had other plans. One day before the Supreme Court heard his immunity claims, one state case was moving forward and another was still being pried open by prosecutors and defense lawyers alike. That is not what a candidate wants when he’s trying to sell himself as the law-and-order answer to everything. It’s what you get when the law keeps showing up to the campaign whether he likes it or not.
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On April 24, 2024, Donald Trump’s lawyers asked Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to dismiss two charges in the Georgia election-interference case. The filing came one day before the Supreme Court’s April 25 oral argument on Trump’s federal immunity claim. McAfee had already dismissed six counts in March and rejected a First Amendment dismissal bid on April 4.
On April 24, 2024, Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial was in progress and had already moved into the testimony phase after opening statements began two days earlier. In Washington, the Supreme Court was set to hear arguments the next day in a separate case over whether he could claim criminal immunity for alleged official acts in the federal election-interference prosecution.