Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Delay Documents Trial Until After Election
A Trump-appointed federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s prosecution on criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents declined Trump’s request to delay the trial until after the 2024 presidential election.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon said in her order that the trial will begin on May 20, 2024. By that point in time, nearly all the voting in the Republican Party’s presidential primary and caucuses will be over.
Cannon’s decision to push the trial back by several months takes a middle-of-the-road approach between what prosecutors and the defense had requested.
Special Counsel Jack Smith had sought for the trial to begin in December 2023 — before any votes were cast in the presidential primaries and caucuses — while Trump had pushed for the trial to be delayed until after the presidential election on November 5, 2024.
The New York Times reported that the jurors will be selected from a handful of counties that Trump “won handily” in the last two presidential elections. (Read more from “Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Trump’s Request to Delay Documents Trial Until After Election” HERE)
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