I am very happy with the May date as it will allow Jack Smith to get the Washington DC squeezed in before it.
Aileen Cannon has the very real ability to ensure no other case came to docket by instead granting Jack Smith his requested date, of dec 11 but then as that date approached entertaining motion after motion to delay, each pushing the case back in 3 month or longer increments. Effectively she would leave no ability to squeeze in any other case but could keep granting hearings on frivolous Trump motions that would delay it beyond the election.
A smart Aileen Cannon would have done that but we all know she is not smart.
What we will now see is Jack file the Washington case early next week, ask for an expediated trial, and almost certainly get it.
Aileen has likely thrown Trump out of the frying pan, thinking that helped him, but right into the fire!