SC is an open primary state. You go to the polls and are offered a Rep or Dem ballot. There are no registered voters.by party. Haley is hoping that Dems crossover and vote for her. She is the Dem candidate to stop/weaken Trump.
Haley and her donors are hoping that Trump is convicted before the Convention. Jack Smith and Fani Willis are seeking to achieve that objective. Smith wants his trials to begin before Super Tuesday.
Dem Primary is Feb 3rd. Repub primary is Feb 24th. You can only vote in one.
Oral arguments before a 3 judge panel of the DC Circuit on the presidential immunity issues is on February 8. I don’t think you’ll see a decision until at least two weeks later. If Trump loses, he gets 14 days to seek rehearing en banc (i.e., before all 11 judges on the DC Circuit). Let’s say the court denies that within one week. All of a sudden we are out close to March 15. Trump then gets, I think, 90 days to file for a writ of certiorari in the US Supreme Court; if four justices agree to take the case, it gets set down for full briefiing and argument. Given that the Supreme Court’s annual term ends prior to the July 4 holiday weekend and the new term does not start until the first working day in October, the case probably gets heard sometime in November after the election has been held. So, I think it is doubtful that the trial will be held in Judge Chutkan’s courtrom this year.
Trump should be at the Georgia Supreme Court requesting a special master be appointed to conduct a proceeding to determine whether Fani Willis should keep her law license, which she needs to prosecute the case. Trump should be arguing that the whole case should be thrown out because Willis is a corrupt public official, which taints the grand jury indictment she obtained. He should also be arguing that Fani is a racist and that her actions are designed to violate the rights of The Donald, a white male, under color of state law.
I sense that Trump may want these judicial proceedings to continue, because he can’t possibly buy advertising like this, and the proceedings show how utterly corrupt and contemptible the Democrat party is.