President-elect Donald Trump projected victory on Tuesday left the legal cases in jeopardy as he prepares to take office.
Trump's federal criminal cases in Florida and Washington, D.C. already had uncertain fates. Special counsel Jack Smith sought to revive the former — dismissed earlier this year — in an appeal to the 11th Circuit Court and re-indicted the latter following a Supreme Court decision on official presidential acts in June. In Georgia, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' election interference case all but ground to a halt as an appeals court agreed to determine whether her relationship with a former lead prosecutor disqualified her from the case. The president-elect's sentencing in New York on 34 felony counts, however, is still scheduled for late November, following previous delays.
