It was a busy week for Donald Trump’s criminal cases.
Judge Juan Merchan has ruled that his New York hush-money trial will be pushed back by 30 days from today following a dump of new evidence for both parties to consider — the original start date was 25 March.
The former president’s defence team had asked for longer but the ruling was in line with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s suggestion of a month delay.
Earlier on Friday, Judge Scott McAfee denied a bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from Mr Trump’s Georgia election interference case.
DA Willis had been subjected to a high-stakes series of hearings in recent weeks after attorneys for the former president and his codefendants called for her disqualification from the case.
While she will not be disqualified from prosecuting the RICO case, either she or special prosecutor Nathan Wade must step down — which Mr Wade did.
Mr Trump was also in court in Florida this week, attempting to have the criminal case into his alleged mishandling of classified documents thrown out.
