Trump’s lawyers return to D.C. court with the two sides at odds over a trial date in the election-sabotaging case

Washington (AP) – Attorneys Donald Trump He is set to return to court on Monday as a federal judge considers radically conflicting proposals for a trial date in the case that accuses him of working on Cancellation of the results of the 2020 presidential elections In the lead-up to the January 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has proposed a trial on January 2, 2024, in federal court in Washington, one of four cities where Trump could face trial as early as next year. Trump’s lawyers, noting the time they say is necessary for the review 11.5 million pages of documents They have received from prosecutors, and requested a trial in April 2026, about a year and a half after the presidential election.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan is expected to set a tentative trial date at least during a status conference on Monday.

Another possible item on the agenda would be additional discussion about any restrictions on Trump publicly discussing evidence in this case. Chutkan said at the hearing Earlier this month, she said she would “take every measure necessary to preserve the integrity of the case” and warned that “inflammatory” statements about the proceedings could prompt her to move the case more quickly to trial to prevent intimidating witnesses or soiling the jury.

The federal election sabotage trial is one of four criminal cases filed against Trump. Smith’s team has filed a separate federal lawsuit accusing him Unlawfully keeping classified documents on his property in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, and refused to return them. This case is currently scheduled to be tried on May 20.

He also faces government cases in New York and Georgia. Manhattan prosecutors charged him falsified business records in connection with payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an extramarital affair with Trump, as prosecutors in Fulton County, Ga., charged Trump and 18 others in an extortion plot aimed at overturning that state’s 2020 election.

Trump surrendered Thursday in that case. Making a frown on the first shot of the mug In American history, a former US president.