Messenger - Donald Trump is openly goading his
congressional loyalists to shut down the federal government at the end
of next week for the explicit purpose of sabotaging his criminal cases. “Republicans
in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden’s
weaponized Government that refuses to close the Border, and treats half
the Country as Enemies of the State,” the former president and 2024 Republican frontrunner wrote
on his website Truth Social on Thursday morning....
Experts note that Trump’s intention of trying to starve his criminal prosecutions via a lapse in federal funding would almost certainly fail in its objective. In the event of a shutdown, the U.S. court system will remain fully funded for up to three weeks. And even after that, the judicial branch of the federal government can tap into “carryover” funds from previous years and fees like the ones charged by Pacer, the online court documents database that costs the public 10 cents a page for downloads.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose team works for the Justice Department, has an additional cushion provided by a “permanent, indefinite appropriation,” which will continue to finance the already-charged cases against Trump. The scheduled start dates for the trials in the two federal Trump cases also aren’t scheduled until March and May of 2024 respectively, well beyond the time window that any shutdown is expected to last.
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