The Wheels Are Too Damned Slow

 It looks like the current NY hush money/campaign finance case will be Trump's only criminal trial before election day.

In short:

- The documents case - which is a slam dunk - was handed to a manifestly partisan and unfit judge who has succeeded in kicking the case further and further down the road. Aileen Cannon seems to be the only lawyer actually capable of keeping Trump out of trouble.

- The Georgia case is currently in limbo during an appeal of Fani Willis' poor judgment in hiring Nathan Wade while dating him.  Like the NY trial, this is a state matter, but the appeals court seems in no hurry to let the trial proceed.

- Finally, the most serious case of election interference is being interfered with by the Federalist Society clique on the Supreme Court. The completely bullshit decision to hear this case meant pushing it off...and off...and off. I hope that if Democrats clean up in November, they expand the Court and neuter the partisan ideologues in robes.

Campos began the post linked above by blaming Garland, and I get it. However, if anything the decision to make sure every I was dotted and every T crossed seem wise considering the shit that conservative judges are pulling. Where Garland no doubt dropped the ball was in thinking that there were five members of the current Supreme Court who were not incontrovertible hacks.

I do agree with Campos that if Trump is convicted in his current case, that's the game. It would be delicious irony if the least "serious" of Trump's crimes is the one that lands him in prison.