Lawyers argue earlier date would violate ex-president’s constitutional rights but special counsel expected to oppose two-year delay
Lawyers for Donald Trump asked the judge overseeing his federal election interference trial to push back the start date to April 2026, nearly a year after the next presidential election.
The lawyers filed the request to US district court judge Tanya Chutkan, after Trump was indicted earlier this month on charges that he conspired to defraud the United States, conspired to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructed an official proceeding and engaged in a conspiracy against rights.
It is difficult to imagine a public interest stronger than the one in this case in which the defendant – the former president of the United States – is charged with three criminal conspiracies.
If we were to print and stack 11.5 million pages of documents, with no gap between pages, at 200 pages per inch, the result would be a tower of paper stretching nearly 5,000 feet into the sky. That is taller than the Washington Monument, stacked on top of itself eight times, with nearly a million pages to spare.
The government’s objective is clear: to deny President Trump and his counsel a fair ability to prepare for trial.
11am: President Joe Biden will welcome the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, and Japan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, to Camp David for a trilateral summit.
3pm: Biden, Yoon and Kishida will hold a joint press conference.
6pm: Biden will leave Camp David for Andrews, where he will fly to Reno
The House and Senate are out.