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☆ Here’s How the Manhattan Trial’s Timing Could Affect the Washington Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But the scheduling of the election interference case, which is taking place in Washington, is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. The justices will soon have to decide whether — and how quickly — to hear Mr. Trump’s arguments about having the underlying charges in that case dismissed with a sweeping claim of executive immunity. The election trial in Washington had initially been set to begin on March 4. But the judge overseeing it, Tanya S. Chutkan, recently scrapped that date as Mr. Trump pursued his immunity claims. Justice Merchan has set the hush money case for March 25 in Manhattan, noting on Thursday that the trial could last about six weeks.

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☆ Federal Judge Rejects Trump’s Immunity Claims in Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The ruling by the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, was her first denying one of Mr. Trump’s many motions to dismiss the election interference case, which is set to go to trial in Federal District Court in Washington in about three months. It offered a sweeping condemnation of what Judge Chutkan called Mr. Trump’s attempts to “usurp the reins of government” and cited foundational American texts like the Federalist Papers and George Washington’s farewell address. Mr. Trump’s lawyers had expected the immunity motion to fail. They have, in fact, been planning for weeks to use the defeat to begin a long-shot strategy to put off the impending trial. Mr. Trump’s lawyers first filed their immunity claims in October in a set of breathtaking court papers that maintained he could not be held accountable for any official actions he took as president, even after a grand jury had returned a four-count criminal indictment against him.

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☆ Trump Seeks to Use Trial to Challenge Findings That 2020 Election Was Fair
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But even if his lawyers get far less than what they asked for, the scope of their requests can be read as a kind of outline of how they plan to fight the case, which is set to go to trial in March in Federal District Court in Washington. At the heart of their strategy, the court papers say, is a plan to call into question findings made by the intelligence community, the F.B.I. and other federal agencies that the election was not marred by widespread fraud. Those requests were only some of the 59 separate demands for records made in more than 70 pages of court papers submitted by Mr. Trump’s legal team. Looking for anything that could help them prove the race was not secure, the lawyers made additional requests for information about how federal officials assessed cyberattacks around the time of the election and about attempts by foreign governments to interfere in it.

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☆ Appeals Court to Hear Arguments on Trump Election Case Gag Order
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Trump’s lawyers appealed the order almost as soon as it was imposed, deriding it as “the essence of censorship.”In court papers, they have told the appeals court that the order should be repealed since it violates the First Amendment. They say that this gag order in particular was needed because of Mr. Trump’s “near daily” attacks against Mr. Smith, Judge Chutkan and potential witnesses in the case, including former Vice President Mike Pence and Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The prosecutors have tried to position themselves as protectors of both the integrity of the judicial process and the people who take part in it, telling the appeals court that Mr. Trump’s threats on social media have sometimes had damaging effects in the real world. It remains unclear how quickly the three-judge panel of the appeals court will decide on whether to rescind the gag order or keep it in place as the case moves toward its trial date. It has been in abeyance for about two weeks as the court has gotten filings from the defense and the prosecution.

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☆ Federal Prosecutors Object to Trump Request for Broadcast of Election Trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Federal prosecutors on Monday accused former President Donald J. Trump of trying to turn his trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election into “a media event” with a “carnival atmosphere” by backing calls to have it broadcast live on television. Even though federal rules of criminal procedure forbid televising trials, Mr. Trump’s lawyers last week asked Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the election subversion case, to agree to requests from news organizations to broadcast the proceedings. Mr. Trump’s filing was short on legal arguments and relied instead on several dubious claims that he was being treated unfairly in the case and that only the transparency of a televised trial could cure the purported wrongs he had suffered. But firing back on Monday, prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, reminded Judge Chutkan that she had already vowed to treat Mr. Trump like any other criminal defendant. The prosecutors added that despite the former president’s references to “fairness,” he was actually trying to create a circuslike environment “from which he hopes to profit by distracting, like many fraud defendants try to do, from the charges against him.”

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Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump have told a judge that she should permit his trial on federal charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election to be televised live from the courtroom. It was the first time that Mr. Trump has formally weighed in on the issue of whether to broadcast any of the four criminal trials he is facing. His motion to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal election trial in Washington, came after similar requests made by several media organizations and was filed late on Friday. A judge in Georgia who is handling Mr. Trump’s state election subversion case has said that proceeding will be televised. Mr. Trump’s motion for a televised trial came in a filing adopting his bombastic and combative style.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Tanya S, Chutkan, Jack Smith, “ Locations: Washington, Georgia, Trump’s

☆ Will Trump’s Barbs Land Him Behind Bars?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +9 min

It was a historic and jarring event when FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump's home last year to look for classified documents he was accused of hoarding. "Courts and prosecutors have to become normalized to the idea of detaining Trump – if he continues to violate gag orders and/or if he is convicted at trial," Signorelli says. Less-powerful defendants have been punished with time behind bars for being in contempt of court (including violating gag orders) or threatening authorities. Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire crypto trader, was put behind bars in August weeks before his fraud trial after giving a media outlet private writings by a witness. While courts are sensitive to First Amendment protections – especially for someone running for president – Trump is pushing the legal envelope, Eisen says.

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☆ Federal Judge Reinstates Gag Order on Trump in Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A federal judge reinstated a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday that had been temporarily placed on hold nine days earlier, reimposing restrictions on what Mr. Trump can say about witnesses and prosecutors in the case in which he stands accused of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. In making her decision, the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, also denied a request by Mr. Trump’s lawyers to freeze the gag order for what could have been a considerably longer period, saying it can remain in effect as a federal appeals court in Washington reviews it. Judge Chutkan’s ruling about the order was posted publicly on PACER, the federal court database, late on Sunday, but her detailed order explaining her reasoning was not immediately available because of what appeared to be a glitch in the computer system. The dispute about the gag order, which was initially put in place on Oct. 16 after several rounds of court filings and a hard-fought hearing in Federal District Court in Washington, has for weeks pitted two significant legal arguments against each other.

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☆ If Trump Trial Isn’t Broadcast Live, a Plea to Record It for Posterity
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Adam Liptak | More About Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

NBC argued that relaying a video feed from the courtroom to its studios, say, and then broadcasting it to the public, perhaps after a brief delay, would not run afoul of the rule. That argument might strike some as too clever. That would not seem to be broadcasting from the courtroom. Rebecca Blumenstein, the president of editorial for NBC News and a former deputy managing editor of The New York Times, asked Judge Chutkan to do at least that much. “At minimum, I urge this court to allow the video recording of proceedings for historical posterity,” Ms. Blumenstein said in a sworn statement submitted with NBC’s application.

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☆ Judge Chutkan Gags Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ All the people Donald Trump can't insult anymore or he'd risk violating court orders
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The federal judge in Trump's election interference case issued a gag order against him on Monday. Another gag order was issued by the judge in Trump's New York civil fraud trial earlier this month. AdvertisementAdvertisementThanks to a couple of gag orders against him, there's a bunch of people Donald Trump can't insult anymore — unless he wants to risk violating court orders. Earlier this month, Justice Arthur Engoron issued a gag order in Trump's New York civil fraud trial when Trump singled out one of Engoron's clerks online. At a campaign rally soon after Chutkan's order, Trump attacked her, calling her ruling "unconstitutional" and saying "her whole life is not liking me."

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Within hours of Judge Chutkan’s announcement at a hearing on Monday in Federal District Court in Washington that she would be imposing the order, Mr. Trump had already attacked it as an assault on his First Amendment rights. He then misrepresented the contents of Judge Chutkan’s ruling. “You know what a gag order is?” Mr. Trump, the current front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, asked the crowd. “You can’t speak badly about your opponent.”In fact, Judge Chutkan’s order leaves Mr. Trump free to criticize President Biden, along with his administration and the Justice Department. Judge Chutkan’s order leaves Mr. Trump free to attack her, too.

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☆ Donald Trump gag order imposed by judge: Trump 'does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,' Judge Chutkan says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz Katelyn Polantz | Holmes Lybrand | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said. Trump will appeal Chutkan’s order, he said in a post on his social media website Truth Social. Following the two federal indictments against the former president, Trump has lashed out against prosecutors, potential witnesses and the judge overseeing the election subversion case in Washington. “When you start to use a word like ‘thug’ to describe a prosecutor doing their job, that wouldn’t be allowed by any other criminal defendant,” Chutkan said. Limited gag order issued in NY fraud trialIf Chutkan does decide to place restrictions on what the former president can say, she won’t be the first judge to do so.

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The gag order fight underscores the unprecedented complexities of prosecuting the former president as he tries to retake the White House while fighting criminal charges in four cases. The defense had claimed Chutkan's comments about Trump in other cases raised questions about whether she had prejudged his guilt. But Chutkan said her comments were mischaracterized and there was no need for her to step aside. Prosecutors noted in a recent motion that Trump's incendiary rhetoric has continued even after their initial gag order request. Prosecutors have said their proposal would not impact Trump's ability to campaign or prevent him from publicly declaring his innocence.

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☆ Opinion: Trump and the upside-down world
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-01 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. CNN —The title on the cover of Cass R. Sunstein’s 2021 book, “This is not normal,” is printed upside down. The beginning of a Trump-backed House Republican inquiry into impeaching President Joe Biden with no clear evidence of his wrongdoing. A last-ditch move Saturday kept federal agencies funded for 45 days while putting more aid to Ukraine in jeopardy. Bill Bramhall/Tribune Content AgencyOn Monday, a New York judge found Trump and his adult sons liable for insurance and bank fraud and canceled the Trump Organization’s business certification.

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☆ Judge Denies Trump’s Request That She Recuse Herself in Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Seeking to disqualify a judge is a challenging and precarious move — one that, if it fails (which it often does), runs the risk of annoying the person granted the power to make critical decisions in the case. Mr. Trump’s lawyers filed their recusal motion two weeks ago, after Judge Chutkan handed them a significant defeat by scheduling the trial for March, much earlier than they had requested, but before they had filed any substantive motions to attack the charges Mr. Trump is facing. A judge’s decision to remain on a case is generally not subject to an immediate appeal — though Mr. Trump’s lawyers could in theory try. Judge Chutkan’s ruling not to disqualify herself came as she considers a potentially significant development in the case: whether to grant the government’s request to impose a gag order on Mr. Trump’s public statements about the case. In asking Judge Chutkan to step aside, Mr. Trump’s lawyers cited statements she had made about the former president at hearings for two defendants facing sentencing for crimes they committed on Jan. 6.

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☆ Special Counsel Seeking Gag Order on Trump in Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In their filing on Friday, prosecutors went through a long litany of Mr. Trump’s social media attacks, noting how he has referred to Mr. Smith several times as “deranged” and to the prosecutors working under him as a “team of thugs.” They pointed out that Mr. Trump has called Judge Chutkan “a radical Obama hack” and a “biased, Trump-hating judge.”Prosecutors also said that Mr. Trump has attacked the residents of Washington who one day will be called upon to serve as the jury pool for his trial. In late August, Mr. Trump, apparently referring to an article in The New York Post, attacked the prosecutor in the documents case, Jay I. Bratt, for having met at the White House with officials of the Biden administration. But prosecutors said that, as Mr. Trump knew from the discovery evidence he had received in the case, Mr. Bratt went to the White House as part of the investigation of the classified documents case to interview a “career military official” who worked there. Seeking to connect Mr. Trump’s out-of-court statements directly to the charges they have brought, prosecutors cited several social media attacks that reached back to the chaotic postelection period when Mr. Trump was spreading lies that widespread fraud had marred the vote count. The prosecutors accused Mr. Trump of knowing that his menacing remarks at that time often inspired “others to perpetrate threats and harassment against his targets.”

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On Monday, Mr. Trump lawyers sought to disqualify another judge involved in a case against him: Tanya S. Chutkan, who is handling his prosecution in Washington on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election. There has been a flurry of activity in Ms. James’s case against Mr. Trump recently. The attorney general recently filed documents saying that Mr. Trump exaggerated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion a year to secure favorable loans. Mr. Trump had received most of the loans in question too long ago for the matter to be considered by a court, his lawyers argue. Along with that argument his lawyers had asked that the October trial be delayed, saying that they were unable to prepare for a trial without knowing its scope.

Persons: Merchan, ”, Trump, Tanya S, Chutkan, Engoron Organizations: Capitol Locations: Washington

☆ Trump seeks disqualification of US judge in federal election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a South Dakota Republican party rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. September 8, 2023. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, said last month he planned to seek Chutkan's recusal as well as a change of venue for the case. Trump has frequently criticized Chutkan on his social media site since she was randomly assigned to preside over the election case in Washington federal court. The judge also previously warned Trump about attempting to influence potential witnesses in the case. "Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not president," Chutkan wrote in that ruling.

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☆ Trump Seeks Recusal of Judge in Federal Elections Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump on Monday asked the federal judge overseeing his looming trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election to recuse herself, claiming that she has shown a bias against Mr. Trump in public statements made from the bench in other cases. The recusal motion was a risky gambit by Mr. Trump’s legal team given that the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, will have the initial say about whether or not to grant it. Mr. Trump’s lawyers have tried this strategy before, attempting — and failing — to have the judge overseeing his state felony trial in Manhattan step aside. In a motion filed in Federal District Court in Washington, John F. Lauro, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, cited statements Judge Chutkan had made about the former president at hearings for two defendants facing sentencing for crimes they committed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. At one of the hearings, in October 2022, Judge Chutkan told the defendant, Christine Priola, a former occupational therapist in the Cleveland school system, that the people who “mobbed” the Capitol on Jan. 6 showed “blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”

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Donald Trump’s legal team motioned to remove the judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against the former president in Washington on Monday, arguing that she has made statements that “taint” the proceedings and disqualify her from overseeing the case. “Although Judge Chutkan may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial – and may believe that she can do so – her public statements unavoidably taint these proceedings, regardless of outcome,” the lawyers wrote, arguing that the public will question the judge’s impartiality. “Under these circumstances, the law and the overwhelming public interest in the integrity of this historic proceeding require recusal.”In the nine-page filing, Trump’s team cited multiple statements from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee who has sentenced rioters involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol – including one where she said that the people who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 “were there in fealty, in loyalty, to one man – not to the Constitution,” adding that “it’s a blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”Trump’s team argued that the meaning of the line is “inescapable,” suggesting that although Trump is free, he “should not be,” calling the statement an “apparent prejudgment of guilt.” In another instance, they claimed that Chutkan agreed with portions of a sentencing memorandum which “placed blame on President Trump and complained that he had not been charged.”Cartoons on Donald Trump's Indictments View All 72 ImagesThe lawyers said the statements undermine public confidence that the court “will administer justice neutrally and dispassionately,” arguing that Chutkan should therefore recuse herself and the case be randomly assigned to another district judge. Chutkan herself will get the final word on whether the statements risk making her appear biased. But Trump’s team argued that, because of the high profile of the case and because of the matter’s “monumental significance,” the public must have the “utmost confidence that the Court will administer justice neutrally and dispassionately.”

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a South Dakota Republican party rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. September 8, 2023. "Judge Chutkan has, in connection with other cases, suggested that President Trump should be prosecuted and imprisoned," the lawyers wrote in their motion asking the judge to recuse herself. Last month, the judge scheduled Trump's trial to begin March 4, 2024, which prompted Trump to blast her in a social media post as a "biased, Trump Hating Judge." If Chutkan steps off the case, it could be randomly assigned to another judge in the same court. Manhattan Supreme Court Juan Merchan ruled that he could be "fair and impartial" toward Trump despite claims by the former president that the judge had conflicts of interest in the case.

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☆ Trump cited the ‘Scottsboro Boys’ case when he asked for a 2026 trial. Judge Chutkan rejected any comparison
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A female judge, a Black judge, and to talk about that case and compare it to Trump’s case was absurd,” retired California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source” Monday night. “And Judge Chutkan really took them up on it and said this case is entirely different. No comparison between Scottsboro Boys and Trump, judge saysTrump’s attorneys didn’t discuss the Supreme Court case during Monday’s hearing, but used the case to begin their August 17 brief to Chutkan. “The prompt disposition of criminal cases is to be commended and encouraged,” the 1932 Supreme Court ruling states. In addition to Powell, the trials also resulted in the 1935 Supreme Court case Norris v. Alabama, which paved the way for racially diverse juries.

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☆ How Might Trump Challenge the March 4 Trial Date in the Federal Election Case?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Charlie Savage | More About Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In particular, as Mr. Trump noted, the day after the trial would begin is Super Tuesday, when voters in over a dozen states will cast their primary votes. That is because Mr. Trump will not be required to attend until opening statements begin. But if she declines to change it, decisions by a Federal District Court judge over a prospective trial calendar are not usually considered subject to an immediate appeal. Mr. Lauro told the judge on Monday that the defense team would not be able to provide adequate representation to Mr. Trump if it had to be prepared by March 4. Such a trial date would deny his client the opportunity to have effective assistance of counsel, he added.

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☆ Trump's social media attacks against prosecutors could backfire on his attempts to delay his criminal trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

A federal judge set Trump's election interference trial in Washington, DC, for March 4, 2024. Prosecutors want a trial quickly because Trump's social media attacks could influence the jury pool. Lucian Chalfen, a spokesperson for the New York state court system, told Insider that Trump's trial date in Manhattan has not been changed. Judges have sought to reign in Trump's social media posts in other ways. Lauro has previously said he wants the case trial in West Virginia, which legal experts say is unlikely to happen.

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