Notoriously shitty MAGA lawyer John Pierce, sort of representing Capitol rioter Michael Dillion, on Monday attempted to inject himself and his client into the timing of disgraced former President Trump’s expected DC trial on charges related to his post-2020 election coup attempt by filing a motion requesting that Judge Tanya Chutkan schedule Dillion’s trial six days after the date Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith requested for Trump’s trial to begin.
In case you’re thinking we’re just inferring that this is Pierce’s intent by asking for Dillion’s trial tp start January 8th, 2024, no. He specifically cited Smith, writing “Defendant MICHAEL JOHN DILLON, by and through undersigned counsel, hereby respectfully invokes and demands his Constitutional and statutory rights to a speedy trial and demands trial beginning on the date on which it is already set, January 8, 2024, pursuant to the Court’s order and 18 USC § 3161. There seems to be news discussion of holding trial for Donald J Trump before the same Court during or around this time, commencing on January 2, 2024; but Dillon insists on a trial as scheduled. Dillon rejects the injection of partisan politics and election interference into his legal rights as a Defendant.”