BOISE, Idaho — It appears far-right activist Ammon Bundy’s legal proceedings will be stretched out further still. Ada County Magistrate Judge Kira Dale denied Bundy’s motion to stay and motion to dismiss at a status hearing on Monday afternoon.
His jury trial, which was set for Thursday, has been moved to 8:15 a.m on March 14. The trial will look at Bundy’s trespassing charges from April 8 when he was arrested twice in one day for entering the Idaho Capitol Building. At the time, he was under a one-year ban from the building after he was arrested in 2020 for refusing to leave the Statehouse’s Lincoln Auditorium.
At Monday’s hearing, Bundy’s attorney Seth Diviney tried to argue that the original ban was unconstitutional. Diviney said the Department of Administration Director Keith Reynolds did not have the authority to revoke Bundy’s access.
The judge, however, did not bite.
“It’s denied now, because there just, there isn’t enough of a basis for it,” Dale said in the hearing.