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Trump Case May Not Go to Trial Until After 2024 Election, Experts Say

The unprecedented nature of a former President facing criminal charges carries a wide net of unknowns, but if one thing is clear from Trump’s extensive court record, it’s that he will likely seek to delay and prolong the proceedings as long as possible. In dozens of legal matters going back decades, Trump’s legal team has filed an exhaustive list of motions and appeals designed to stretch the clock.

–TIME

 If the New York case simmers through an election year (and with Georgia still to be heard from) it means at best a political environment even more volatile than it is today, and at worst Trump 2.0. 

I don't know if anybody's old enough to remember this any more but I keep thinking about the story where Bre'r Rabbit says to Bre'r Fox, please don't throw me into that briar patch!