foot dragging

State legislatures set certification deadlines, which should override administrative foot-dragging even if sanctioned by state election boards.

The families have complained for years about what they call foot-dragging by authorities.

Instead, we have seen weeks now of foot-dragging, leaking, and piecemeal intraparty fighting.

The other three strong indictments against him in other jurisdictions have unfortunately been delayed by a corrupt judge, a foot-dragging Supreme Court, and a district attorney’s questionable conduct in an already complex case.

Foot-dragging — by the Supreme Court, where three Trump appointees sit, and at the Florida district court where a Trump-appointed judge presides — has all but assured that voters won’t get criminal verdicts before election day on the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 defeat and to squirrel away top-secret documents.