BCLP Partner Eric Rieder co-authors MSNBC opinion piece on Trump’s bid to delay trial — judge urged to dismiss immunity claim

BCLP Partner Eric Rieder and Norman Eisen, former impeachment counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, co-authored an opinion piece for MSNBC on former President Donald Trump’s attempt to delay his Manhattan criminal trial.  The court should reject this attempt, Eric says.  

Former President Trump sought the delay in the trial of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case against him based on the pending case before the U.S. Supreme Court on presidential immunity.  According to Eric and Norman, the Supreme Court immunity case provides no basis for delay of the New York criminal trial.  They write that, among other things, Trump previously waived any “absolute presidential immunity” defense, failed to raise immunity defenses in pretrial motions in New York state court, and that in any event, the conduct charged in the indictment did not involve official action that could be subject to presidential immunity.   

Eric, co-leader of the firm's Shareholder Securities and Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation Team, is a longtime New York litigation partner.