The Fulton County District Attorney, Fani Willis, has made an astonishing request to the court, urging for a "speedy trial" involving all 19 co-defendants in the case she filed against former President Donald Trump.

Willis is determined to commence the trial on October 23rd, despite only two of the co-defendants, former Trump lawyer Sydney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, currently being involved in the proceedings. Willis contends that separating the defendants from one another would be seen as improper, raising interesting questions about the basis of severance arguments.

During a discussion on MSNBC, Ali Velshi engaged network legal analyst Glenn Kirshner in a conversation about the reasoning behind arguing against severance in this case. Kirshner explained that prosecutors generally prefer co-defendants to stand trial together, while the defendants often seek to distance themselves to try the "empty chair defense."

Kirshner suggested that if Chesebro were to be tried alongside Powell and a couple of other co-conspirators, he might claim that John Eastman, a constitutional scholar and law school Dean, who should have been present but wasn't, was the true architect behind the alternate electors scheme. This strategy could introduce reasonable doubt among jurors, potentially leading to a hung jury and no decision.