Donald Trump Faces Legal Week From Hell

Donald Trump will this week deal with multiple court deadlines and meetings as his many legal cases unfold.

The former president and GOP frontrunner is facing four criminal indictments with a total of 91 charges, all of which he denies, while calling them part of a political witch hunt. One of them is a Georgia racketeering case in which he and 18 co-defendants stand accused of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. On Monday, lawyers in the case must file all their motions in the case.

Meanwhile, the Georgia case is one of two indictments relating to Trump's behaviour surrounding the election. The other, a four-count federal indictment filed in August, accuses him of allegedly working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Newsweek contacted representatives for Trump via email to comment on this story.

The Republican is appealing a decision made in December by Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is hearing the trial, that he does not have absolute immunity from decisions made while he was in the White House.

On Tuesday, oral arguments in this immunity case will begin at the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Trump will attend this trial.

In June, Trump was charged with retaining national defense information, including U.S. nuclear secrets and plans for U.S. military retaliation in the event of an attack, and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them. Prosecutors have said Trump took documents he was no longer authorized to have after leaving the White House in 2021 and resisted repeated requests by federal officials to return them all.

On Tuesday, there is a "joint discovery status report" for the classified document case, which is a phase in pre-trial when parties involved in a case can examine each other's evidence.

On the same day, there will be a supplemental briefing on whether plaintiffs have standing in Oregon to challenge the Republican's appearance on the GOP primary ballot over a clause in the Constitution's 14th Amendment which bars insurrectionists from holding office.

Multiple states have filed lawsuits to remove Trump from their state ballots, and he is currently disqualified from Colorado and Maine, though the Supreme Court is hearing his appeal in the Colorado case.

Finally, on Thursday, the final arguments will take place in Trump's civil fraud trial.

In September, Judge Arthur Engoron issued a partial summary judgment in the civil fraud trial brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that Trump and top executives at The Trump Organization committed fraud. He held that the former president grossly inflated the value of his assets to obtain more favorable terms from lenders and insurers. The rest of the trial will determine how much the Republican will pay in damages, as well as rule on six other accusations—including falsifying business records, insurance fraud and conspiracy claims.