{"id":2200721,"date":"2024-03-17T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-laments-trump-could-evade-justice-in-partisan-court-delays\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T17:22:24","slug":"adam-schiff-laments-trump-could-evade-justice-in-partisan-court-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/adam-schiff-laments-trump-could-evade-justice-in-partisan-court-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Schiff voices concern over Trump potentially eluding justice due to &#8216;partisan&#8217; court postponements"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fadam-schiff-laments-trump-could-evade-justice-in-partisan-court-delays%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2200721&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Adam Schiff Criticizes Court Delay in Trump&#8217;s Hush Money Case<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent turn \u200cof events that has political spectators on the edge of their\u2063 seats, <strong>Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)<\/strong> openly expressed his \u200cdisapproval following a significant judiciary decision to postpone a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jury-selection-for-chauvin-trial-delayed\/\" title=\"Jury selection for Chauvin trial delayed\">high-profile trial<\/a>. New York Judge\u2064 Juan \u2064Merchan has agreed to push\u200d back former President Donald Trump\u2019s trial concerning alleged hush\u200d money\u200b dealings, stirring up a storm of\u200c concerns about the implications of this delay for justice.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is a \u2062chance that he could evade justice\u2063 by \u2063delaying justice. This is a tried \u2063and true tactic \u200dof Trump throughout \u2062his career,\u201d Schiff stated, not mincing his words, during an\u2062 appearance on CNN&#8217;s \u200b <em>State \u2063of the \u200bUnion<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the heels of this \u200cdevelopment, Trump,\u200d who faces a litany of <strong>34 felony counts<\/strong>, \u2063finds himself with a 30-day respite from the proceedings initially poised to\u200b scrutinize questionable payments made to women claiming past affairs with him.<\/p>\n<h3>The Legal Tug-of-War<\/h3>\n<p>Trump\u2019s legal team had their sights \u200cset on a more protracted 90-day delay to pore over an avalanche of documents furnished by federal prosecutors. However, a compromise was struck with Manhattan District\u2064 Attorney Alvin Bragg,\u2064 whittling \u200bit down to a mere month. \u2063This concession\u2062 grants Trump&#8217;s attorneys additional time to build\u2064 their defense, but Schiff sees this strategy through a different lens.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff, undeterred by the legal wrangling, conveyed\u200d his broader anxiety \u200dabout \u2063its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thousands-of-marginalized-students-are-missing-from-virtual-learning\/\" title=\"\u2018Thousands\u2019 Of Marginalized Students Are Missing From Virtual Learning\">potential long-term consequences<\/a>. His\u200d tenure on the \u2064 <strong>Jan. 6 Committee<\/strong> has heightened his sensitivity to the ticking clock of justice, especially in\u2064 light of Trump\u2019s pending claims of presidential immunity and the Supreme Court\u2019s hesitation to swiftly reject them.<\/p>\n<h3>A Battle Beyond the Courtroom<\/h3>\n<p>Schiff\u2019s grievances extend beyond the courtroom. He \u200binterprets the stalling of Trump&#8217;s cases as a direct threat to the integrity of upcoming elections, suggesting \u2064it \u2063withholds critical information from voters that could \u200dinfluence their decisions at the polls.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u200d would be a terrible decision both for the interest of justice, it will be a terrible decision\u2062 in depriving American voters of the information they would learn during the course of that trial, but it would also just further discredit this\u2062 partisan and \u200creactionary court,\u201d Schiff\u200b argued, painting a grim picture of the possible fallout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jury selection, initially marked for March 25, has been derailed, \u200cnow replaced by \u200ca hearing intended to chart a\u2064 new course \u2064for the trial&#8217;s timeline. The political undercurrent of this saga is palpable, with\u200b Schiff himself in the midst \u2064of a Senate run, eyeing \u2064the seat \u2064left by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.<\/p>\n<p>As this \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-charged-with-helping-suspect-in-july-4-shooting-obtain-gun-license-to-ask-judge-to-toss-case\/\" title=\"Father aiding suspect in July 4 shooting to seek dismissal of case\">courtroom drama unfolds<\/a>, and Schiff\u2019s campaign gathers momentum, all\u200b eyes remain fixed on how these legal\u2062 maneuvers play out and their ramifications\u2064 not just for the individuals involved, but for the rule of law and the democratic process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM\u2062 THE \u200cWASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Adam Schiff criticized a New York judge&#8217;s move to postpone Donald Trump&#8217;s trial over alleged hush payments for 30 days. On State of the Union, he responded to the delay of Trump&#8217;s 34 felony charge trial regarding payments to women<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2200722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24072598208006-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24072598208006-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2200721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2200721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2200721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2200721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}