Another major question here has been about the timing.
Paul, I do understand that you've got some information now
about the scheduling here.
That's right. Going through this,
with help from our extraordinary team,
we now see that the Court of Appeals is trying
to make up for some of the time that they
lost in this month,
it took them to issue this decision,
setting a very aggressive schedule for sending this back down
to the trial court.
This case again, the traditional next step would be asking
the full circuits and going to the Supreme Court.
That can take quite a bit of time even if
those courts don't weigh in to get answers.
And we know part of the Trump strategy is delay.
But here this case is expected to go back down
to the trial court unless the Supreme Court takes some
sort of extraordinary measure.
And intervenes here. Now, this is incredibly significant because on
Thursday,
of course, Trump's lawyers are going before the Supreme Court
to argue that he should appear on every ballot in
the country.
This question of ballot eligibility,
this is arguably one of the biggest tests of Chief
Justice John Roberts career.
He is likely going to have to try to come
up with some sort of compromise across the justices,
working, you know, to protect also the image of a
court that is increasingly under scrutiny over ethics over questions
of partisanship.
So now in the same week,
they're also going to have this question of whether they
want to intervene on Trump's behalf to get involved in
this immunity question.
And I will reiterate, I've spoken to multiple sources around
the former president,
and they are not optimistic the justices are going to
want to weigh in on this question of immunity.
So if they do not,
they do not want to get involved here.
This case actually could proceed.
They have to find a room on the calendar again
pretty quickly because that was the big question,
OK? It took them a while to get us this,
this decision on immunity. What does this mean for the
timing of a possible trial?
This was expected to go to trial in early March.
Last week it was removed from the calendar.
But this sets up the the possibility that this could
go likely not in March,
but possibly in April or May.
Of course. The other big thing is,
of course Trump is facing 4 separate criminal cases.
The next case that is still on the calendar is
the Manhattan District Attorney's so-called hush money case that is
scheduled to begin in late March.
But it is expected that if the federal case was
to conflict with that,
let's say they scheduled in April for example.
That the Manhattan DA's case would step aside.
So they're clearly setting a very aggressive schedule to make
it possible that this case could go to trial unless
the Supreme Court intervenes.