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The special counsel asked for January 2024. Trump's legal team asked for April 2026. Here's how Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled.
A federal judge on Monday set Donald Trump's federal election interference trial for March 2024, with jury selection scheduled to start on March 4, the day before Super Tuesday primaries.
Special counsel Jack Smith's team had asked for an early January start, while the former president's legal team asked for ... April 2026 (no, that's not a typo). U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan didn't grant the government's aggressive request but she didn't stray too far from it in rejecting the defense's unrealistic one.
"You're not going to get two more years. This case is not going to trial in 2026," Chutkan told Trump's legal team at a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
Trump, who has four pending criminal cases, now has three criminal trial dates set for next year. This federal election case in Washington is now set to go first.
Trump's New York state hush moneytrial is slated to begin roughly three weeks later in March, and his federal classified documents and obstruction trial is set for May. The former president was also charged in Georgia earlier this month, in a state 2020 election interference probe whose allegations overlap with the federal case that just got a trial date. Trump doesn't have a Georgia trial date yet.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-whit...mith-special-counsel-election-case-rcna102109
A federal judge on Monday set Donald Trump's federal election interference trial for March 2024, with jury selection scheduled to start on March 4, the day before Super Tuesday primaries.
Special counsel Jack Smith's team had asked for an early January start, while the former president's legal team asked for ... April 2026 (no, that's not a typo). U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan didn't grant the government's aggressive request but she didn't stray too far from it in rejecting the defense's unrealistic one.
"You're not going to get two more years. This case is not going to trial in 2026," Chutkan told Trump's legal team at a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
Trump, who has four pending criminal cases, now has three criminal trial dates set for next year. This federal election case in Washington is now set to go first.
Trump's New York state hush moneytrial is slated to begin roughly three weeks later in March, and his federal classified documents and obstruction trial is set for May. The former president was also charged in Georgia earlier this month, in a state 2020 election interference probe whose allegations overlap with the federal case that just got a trial date. Trump doesn't have a Georgia trial date yet.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-whit...mith-special-counsel-election-case-rcna102109