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Former President Donald Trump, frantic to avoid being judged by a jury of the very Americans affected by the violent riot of his attempted 2021 coup, keeps signaling a plan to somehow escape the clutches of Washington, D.C.—by transferring the case to the conservative confines of West Virginia.
It sounds petty and deeply unfair. And the request has already been ridiculed by legal scholars who’ve laughed at the idea that a former president can somehow wave his hand and move a case to a place that’s politically convenient.
But in theory, it could work.