Update: As predicted here this morning, New York criminal court judge Juan Merchan sided with Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, denying former president Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the indictment, or postpone trial for 90 days. Merchan ruled that trial will begin with jury selection on April 15 – three weeks from today.
Monday is a big day in the Democrats’ lawfare crusade against Donald Trump. That means, for the former president, it’s a big day in his race against time. He is simultaneously trying to get a lengthy postponement of his imminent criminal trial in Manhattan and seeking to block New York State from enforcing the $454 million judgment against him (on which interest accrues at over $112,000 per day) won by Attorney General Letitia James in her recent civil fraud case. While this was being written, the news broke that a state appellate court had given a significant victory to the former president and putative Republican 2024 presidential nominee: He will have to post a bond of $175 million and has ten days to do it — i.e., the court will not require a bond of $550 million, as James and the lower court sought, in order to stave off enforcement of the judgment, which the AG was poised to begin doing today.
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