I'm hoping AG Garland makes his announcement first; though if tump plans announcing on the 15th, there isn't much time left for Garland.
Hell he's got as long as Trump is still breathing -- if "some set of circumstances"doesn't derail the DoJ from pursuing the case to a conclusion.
I'd like to think the Supreme Court would not entertain some frivolous motion to dismiss charges brought against Trump becuase he was just "Trump being Trump" and didn't mean anything by "whatever happened" to those documents.
Let's face it, it's going to be labeled as
political no matter whether Trump is indicted
before he announces a 2024 run, or
after he annoiunces and while the House and Senate are still both in Democratic hands, or
after January when a red House might start trying to impeach everything that moves.
But so what? Garland still serves at pleasure of this President, Joe Biden. The Dem-led Senate will not try Garland on impeachment articles trumped up (!) by an R-led House, and it's not even clear that enough Republicans would entertain an impeachment of Garland anyway. Not every Republican in the House is nuts enough to ignore irrefutable evidence of improper usage of documents like the ones Trump took and resisted returning. Those were not trivial papers and sounds like their classification status (or, none) was not the only reason they were so sensitive they could not be removed like that.
The midterm elections are over now and they were midterms the Rs did poorly on and midterms during the term of a sitting president who is Joe Biden, not Donald Trump. Trump is citizen Plain... and he was citizen Plain when he took the docs and he was citizen Plain when he tried to get lawyers to lie and say he returned everything (obstruction during investigation of a crime) and he was citizen Plain when he had some valet moving boxes in or out of that storage room after he said again he had returned everything.
You or I or any other plain citizen would be locked up already and here we are waiting to see if Trump can still skate past rule of law because he is Trump? Trump is nobody special before the law. Sure, he's still a former president, and he's also one more cycle away from having any leverage over his own damn party.
i figure Garland is pursuing the case. PIcking a time after the elections is up to him. He might wait until all the states have certified their results and the GA runoff result is certified as well. He's probably not gonna wait until the new House is sworn in, unless it held blue. So I hope he's nearing a wrap.