Posted on 08/28/2023 8:32:47 AM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in federal court set a trial date for March 4, 2024, a schedule that could have a crucial impact on the 2024 race for the White House.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan's decision sets the trial in the middle of the Republican presidential primaries and the day before Super Tuesday.
During a hearing on Monday, Chutkan heard arguments from Trump's lawyers and federal prosecutors about when the case could be set for trial.
Special counsel Jack Smith proposed that the trial start in January, with jury selection beginning in December of this year, while Trump’s team said the trial should be pushed back until April 2026, after the presidential election.
"These proposals are obviously very far apart," Chutkan said Monday. "Neither of them is acceptable.”
Chutkan said that Trump will have to prioritize the trial and that she wouldn't change the trial schedule based upon another defendant's professional obligations, say, for a professional athlete.
The public has an interest in the fair and timely administration of justice, Chutkan said. Trump's lawyer said that going to trial next year would violate the former president's rights, noting the millions of pages of discovery that prosecutors have turned over.
“This is a request for a show trial, not a speedy trial,” Trump lawyer John Lauro said of the special counsel's proposed schedule. “Mr. Trump is not above the law, but he is not below the law."
Chutkan said that while the special counsel team's proposal was too soon, Trump's proposal of 2026 wasn't reasonable. “Discovery in 2023 is not sitting in a warehouse with boxes of paper looking at every single page,” Chutkan said.
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Yep. They know once mar 5th or 12th at the latest Trump is the nominee.
Of course in a normal court case easily can be delayed for months without even needing a major reason.
This is ridiculous! The number of motions and hearings that will need to be held and the time required by law for the opposing party to file and reply to motions, briefs, etc, will make it almost impossible to have a hearing in such a short time. I think this schedule violates President Trump’s Sixth Amendment rights.
The Democrats want Trump to be the nominee.
AND...March 4 begins jury selection. Is Trump’s attendance required ? Shouldn’t be.
My point exactly. Trump will never get a fair trial. And this will only work to his advantage.
Number 1 they need time to PREPARE. The corrupt side is trying to push their own advantage of TIME & pre-planning as hard as possible and their invented & intentionally extreme & scary-sounding charges. Nobody but an idiot would relish Trump being treated this criminal way just so he could “benefit from some people’s anger over the treatment”.
I don’t buy a word you write.
The points you seem to think you are making are absurd.
It’s an ACT. (Yours)
Nobody knows what will happen. Nothing should be treated as though all is well because these creeps are trying their best to “hang him”.
When is Hillary Clintons election interference trial date? She and her fellow DemoMarxists interfered in the election for over 3 years using a Russia collusion hoax that they fully knew was a hoax. And while that was going on she continually screeched to college kids that they must “resist” encouraging their protests and riots.
The GA case hasn’t gotten that far yet. Trump was just indicted two weeks ago.
"Trump federal election case scheduled for March 4, 2024"
"My primary concern here, as it is, in every case, is the interest of justice and that I've balanced the defendant's right to adequately prepare," the judge said.
That's perfect. Imagine being beaten by a "stuffed shirt, capitalist Republican" who campaigns with his mug shot!
Has Trump’s legal team appealed this? I’m still surprised they haven’t moved to have the leftist Judge recused. Not sure what’s going on with this team.
Defendants aren’t involved in that process, their attorneys are.
if?
Anybody watch Life, Liberty and Levin last night? I was on the phone at the time so maybe I didn’t hear it right, but didn’t he say there is a law that prevents a political candidate from being tried during an election year? Or maybe it was prosecutorial code of conduct? It had something to do with preventing people from abusing the justice system to influence an election, so how are they getting away with this?
According to only Trumpers = Patriots.
Wrong. They fear him most of all.
DT’s s smart man. He’s doing what he does best.
>> According to only Trumpers here - they WANT a conviction.
You’re an idiot. And a liar.
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