Chesebro, who was charged alongside Donald Trump and more than a dozen other codefendants with attempting to delay the transfer of power after the 2020 election, was scheduled to stand trial this week. He accepted the offer as jury selection was underway on Friday, and after rejecting an earlier deal.

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    Only Powell and Chesebro were scheduled for next week. The remainder of defendants all waived their right to a speedy trial, as part of a deal which prevents them from demanding speedy trial at the last moment and forcing the courts to struggle to have multiple separate cases going on at the same time for the same charges.

    Nobody else is scheduled for next week, so far as I am aware.

    Edit: Nobody else is scheduled yet at all, so we now do not know when we’re going to see this case go to trial.

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      Nobody else is scheduled yet at all, so we now do not know when we’re going to see this case go to trial.

      Well, after Powell and Chesebro, they will pick the next potential plea candidate of the list. They are good at the “sing or Sing-Sing” game. When they have enough testimonies to get the rest of the gang behind bars, the deal offers will stop - except someone comes forward with something extra juicy.