If you were the last person in America who thought that the Trump impeachments weren’t politically motivated, U.S. Judge Tanya Chutkan’s announcement today should convince you otherwise.

Despite his legal team’s attempts to postpone the impeachment trials, at least three of them will take place in the midst of the primary election season next spring. Chutkan announced today that Trump will have to stand trial in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2024 — the day before a number of states hold elections to decide the Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential race, otherwise known as “Super Tuesday.”

“Mr. Trump will have to make the trial date work, regardless of his schedule,” Chutkan said.

There are, of course, a number of problems with setting the impeachment trials in the middle of the primary election cycle. Not only will they absolutely play a role in determining the outcome of the primary, but Trump’s legal team is currently a little overwhelmed. It turns out that they are parsing through 12.8 million pages of evidence from the government — pages they’ll need to read closely in order to properly defend their client.

In the interest of a fair trial, one would think that Trump’s team would be given a little more time — and, in the interest of a fair election, one would think that the DOJ would try to avoid using the trials as election interference.

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