"It's to make sure that the press has plenty of time to try to link republicans to the "scandal" in the lead up to the 2006 congressional elections, as well as giving plenty of lead time for the 2008 presidential elections."
They do tend to do that, and end up shooting themselves in the foot. ;o)
bcsco had the report that it was the defense attorney who wanted the delay.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571572/posts?page=42#42
And, smoothsailing had wonderful thoughts about this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1571572/posts?page=23#23
After thinking about it, I agree with both of them.
Scooter, and the Rs, want this fight.
They are going to make Fitzgerald rue the day when he decided that
it was NOT a top priority to investigate if a crime was committed.
But really,the antique media and the dems are just so easy to figure out,aren't they?
HA!
They telegraph their punches for all to see. :-)
Actually what I wrote was that the judge was going to set the date for sometime in September but the defense attorney had a scheduling conflict. The judge then set the date for January, '07.
It could be that the defense attorney used the idea of a 'conflict' to have the trial postponed further so that it didn't occur during the election cycle. But nothing in what I read or saw on TV alluded to that as a tactic. Everything pointed to a simple scheduling conflict.
I would agree with the person who said the defense is on a 'roll' right now. However, there's a lot of discovery yet to come out and that's going to take awhile the way Fitzgerald is acting. I think, perhaps, the January date is a good one for the defense.