In 2024, former President Donald Trump faced a tumultuous first half of the year, balancing a packed court schedule with his campaign for re-election. After a seven-week trial in New York, Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts related to falsification of business records linked to his 2016 presidential campaign.
Judge Juan Merchan initially scheduled a sentencing hearing for July 11, ahead of the Republican National Convention, but delays due to the US Supreme Court ruling on Trump’s immunity case pushed the date to September 18.
The start of Trump’s classified documents case in Florida, originally set for late May, was indefinitely postponed by the overseeing judge on May 7. Similarly, the trial date for the Fulton County election subversion case is up in the air as Trump and his co-defendants seek to disqualify the district attorney. The Georgia Court of Appeals is considering this challenge.
In Trump’s federal election subversion case, the trial start date of March 4 was scrapped as the appeals court examined his claims of immunity. The Supreme Court granted partial immunity on July 1, but the criminal case has yet to resume in Washington, DC.
