Trump's Legal Team to Use First Amendment Defense in Election Subversion Case
Former Prosecutor Urges Judiciary to Expedite Trump's Trials Amid Potential Impact on 2024 Election
- Donald Trump's legal team plans to mount a First Amendment defense in his Fulton County, Georgia, election subversion case, arguing that his false claims about election fraud were protected as 'core political speech'.
- Trump's lawyers have requested access to internal government records and private communications related to the federal case against him in connection to the 2020 election, arguing that the information would shed light on Trump’s 'good faith' efforts to overturn his loss to Joe Biden.
- Former prosecutor and legal expert Randall Eliason has urged the judiciary to speed up Trump's criminal trials or risk a 'disaster for the rule of law'.
- Trump is facing over 90 criminal charges stemming from four separate criminal indictments, two at the state level and two federal.
- A recent poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College found that a guilty verdict in any of the cases could have a major impact on his reelection chances, tipping voters in five key swing states to President Joe Biden.
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