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☆ Judge Sets Trial Date in March for Trump’s Federal Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election set a trial date on Monday for early March, laying out a schedule that was close to the government’s initial request of January and that rebuffed Mr. Trump’s extraordinary proposal to push off the proceeding until nearly a year and half after the 2024 election. The decision by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, issued at a contentious hearing in Federal District Court in Washington, to start the trial on March 4 potentially brought it into conflict with two other trials that Mr. Trump is facing that month. The district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., has proposed taking Mr. Trump to trial on charges of tampering with the election in that state on the same day. A second trial in Manhattan, in which Mr. Trump has been accused of more than 30 felonies connected to hush-money payments to a porn actress in the run-up the 2016 election, is set to go to trial on March 25. While Judge Chutkan noted that she had already spoken to the judge in the Manhattan case, the fact that three of the four criminal cases confronting Mr. Trump could go before separate juries in separate cities within weeks of one another reflects the extraordinary nature of the former president’s legal situation.

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☆ Hearings Set for Monday in Two Election Cases Against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By the end of Monday, another piece could be put in place in the complicated jigsaw puzzle of the four criminal cases facing former President Donald J. Trump: A date could be chosen for Mr. Trump’s federal trial on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. At a hearing scheduled for Monday morning in Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan is set to consider — and may select — the date of the trial. As Judge Chutkan considers the arguments, another legal proceeding related to Mr. Trump will be playing out on Monday in federal court in Atlanta, underscoring the complexity of bringing the charges against him to trial. Fani T. Willis, the district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., recently proposed starting a trial in her case against Mr. Trump, on charges of tampering with the 2020 election in that state, in March. But that date remains somewhat uncertain not only because of the jockeying among prosecutors over the timing of the different cases, but also because some of Mr. Trump’s 18 co-defendants in the case have asked for the trial to start as early as this fall while others want to slow things down.

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☆ Prosecutors Criticize Trump’s Request for 2026 Trial Date in Jan. 6 Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Federal prosecutors pushed back on Monday against former President Donald J. Trump’s request to postpone his election interference trial in Washington until well into 2026, asserting that his main reason for the delay — the amount of evidence his lawyers have to sort through — was vastly overstated. Mr. Trump’s lawyers, in an extremely aggressive move last week, asked Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, to put the trial off until at least April 2026. That schedule would call for a jury to be seated nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election and almost three years after the charges against Mr. Trump were originally filed. The lawyers said they needed so much time because the amount of discovery evidence they expect to receive from the government was enormous — as much as 8.5 terabytes of materials, they told Judge Chutkan, totaling over 11.5 million pages. As part of their filing to the judge, the lawyers included a graph that purported to show how a stack of 11.5 million pages would result in a “tower of paper stretching nearly 5,000 feet into the sky.” That, the lawyers pointed out, was “taller than the Washington Monument, stacked on top of itself eight times, with nearly a million pages to spare.”

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☆ Texas Woman Charged With Threatening to Kill Judge in Trump Election Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Trump has a long history of verbally attacking judges and other people involved in the criminal cases brought against him, particularly on social media. Almost immediately, Mr. Trump tested the boundaries of Judge Chutkan’s admonition by posting a series of messages on Truth Social that largely amplified the criticism that other people had lodged against her. VERY BIASED & UNFAIR.”The posts criticizing Judge Chutkan were published after Ms. Shry’s voice mail message. When federal agents visited Ms. Shry at home three days after she left the message for Judge Chutkan, she admitted that she had called the judge’s chambers, the complaint said. Ms. Shry told the agents that she had no plans to go to Washington or to Houston, the area that Ms. Lee represents.

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Just days ago, the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of seeking to subvert the 2020 election admonished him against violating the conditions of his release put in place at his arraignment — including by making “inflammatory statements” that could be construed as possibly intimidating witnesses or other people involved in the case. But Mr. Trump immediately tested that warning by posting a string of messages on his social media website, Truth Social, that largely amplified others criticizing the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan. In one post, written by an ally of Mr. Trump’s, the lawyer Mike Davis, a large photo of Judge Chutkan accompanied text that falsely claimed she had “openly admitted she’s running election interference against Trump.” In two other posts, Mr. Trump wrote, “She obviously wants me behind bars. VERY BIASED & UNFAIR.”After eight years of pushing back at a number of institutions in the United States, Mr. Trump is now probing the limits of what the criminal justice system will tolerate and the lines that Judge Chutkan sought to lay out about what he can — and cannot — say about the election interference case she is overseeing. He has waged a similarly defiant campaign against others involved in criminal cases against him, denouncing Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two federal indictments against him, as “deranged”; casting Fani T. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., as “corrupt”; and even singling out witnesses.

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☆ If Trump gets jail time for one of his federal indictments, it may not be worth it to have him stand trial in Georgia: ex-prosecutor
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Rebecca Cohen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It may not make sense for Trump to ever go to trial in Georgia, an ex-prosecutor says. The Georgia case is currently at "the back of the line," Neama Rahmani said. That's because he might already be serving time for any of the multiple federal cases against him. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis investigated the Georgia case but "really waited a long time, unnecessarily, in my opinion," Rahmani said. Rahmani then wondered if Trump gets years in federal prison, "does it make sense" to have him "stand trial in Georgia when there's a possibility he dies in prison?"

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☆ Takeaways from Judge Chutkan’s contentious first hearing in the Trump 2020 election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

As the presiding judge, Chutkan will play a major role in shaping the proceedings in the lead-up to and during the trial. A major throughline of the hearing was her insistence that Trump’s 2024 political campaign could not override the administration of justice in the case. This case is going to proceed in a normal order,” Chutkan said. But many of her rulings regarding the protective order fell in the prosecutors’ favor. Trump’s lawyers were arguing that other individuals, including volunteers, should be able to work through evidence to assist Trump in the case.

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Judge Tanya Chutkan has already shown a habit of responding quickly and tersely on the docket to debates between the parties over scheduling. Friday’s hearing could set the tone for how the case against Trump will proceed and how Chutkan will manage what has already been contentious feuding between the parties and test her abilities to keep the proceedings on track. Trump pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election last week. In this case, however, the special counsel’s office and Trump’s defense lawyers have battled in court filings over what Trump will be able to discuss publicly. If Trump were to violate any eventual protective order Chutkan issues, he could be held in contempt.

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☆ Trump was warned by a judge about making even 'ambiguous statements' that could intimidate witnesses or influence jurors in the Jan. 6 case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Jan. 6 case judge warned Trump against intimidating witnesses or influencing jurors. Judge Chutkan said "even arguably ambiguous statements" could "threaten the process." Trump has a history of making inflammatory statements about his ongoing legal troubles. Prosecutors wanted to bar Trump from speaking about sensitive topics in the case, a request Chutkan agreed with. Trump has a history of making inflammatory comments and social media posts about his legal troubles.

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☆ Judge overseeing Trump's Jan. 6 case says she won't go easy on him just because he's running for president again
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The judge overseeing the Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump said she won't go easy on him just because he's running for office. "The existence of a political campaign is not going to have any bearing on my decision," Judge Chutkan said. Chutkan put in place a protective order that prevents Trump from speaking about sensitive material from the trial. She made the comment during a hearing about a protective order that the special counsel Jack Smith's office is seeking in its January 6 case against the former president. She added that Trump's political campaign "has to yield to the orderly administration of justice."

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The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of seeking to overturn the 2020 election rejected his request on Friday to be able to speak broadly about evidence and witnesses — and warned Mr. Trump she would take necessary “measures” to keep him from intimidating witnesses or tainting potential jurors. The caution from the judge, Tanya S. Chutkan, came during a 90-minute hearing in Federal District Court in Washington to discuss the scope of a protective order over the discovery evidence in Mr. Trump’s case, a typically routine step in criminal matters. Judge Chutkan said she planned to impose the order but agreed to a modification requested by the Trump legal team that it apply only to “sensitive” materials and not all evidence turned over to the defense. She concluded the hearing with a blunt warning to Mr. Trump, and an unmistakable reference to a recent social media post in which he warned, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!” — a statement his spokesman later said was aimed at political opponents and not at people involved in the case. “I do want to issue a general word of caution — I intend to ensure the orderly administration of justice in this case as I would in any other case, and even arguably ambiguous statements by the parties or their counsel,” she said, could be considered an attempt to “intimidate witnesses or prejudice potential jurors,” triggering the court to take action.

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☆ Special Counsel Proposes January Date for Trump’s Election Interference Trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The prosecutors overseeing the indictment of former President Donald J. Trump on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election asked a judge on Thursday to set a trial date in the case for early January, laying out an aggressive schedule for the proceeding. The prosecutors further proposed that Mr. Trump’s lawyers submit their first pretrial motions in not much more than a month. Mr. Trump’s legal team will get to suggest its own timetable for the case next week and will surely object to the government’s proposal. If accepted, the accelerated schedule would make the election interference case the first of the three criminal cases that Mr. Trump now faces to be put in front of a jury. In their filing to Judge Chutkan, the prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, said the rapid pace they suggested was needed given the gravity and historic nature of the charges.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Tanya S, Chutkan, Judge Chutkan, Jack Smith Organizations: Federal, Court Locations: Washington

☆ What to Know About Prosecutors’ Request for Protective Order in Jan. 6 Case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Alan Feuer | More About Alan Feuer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Their argument was inferential, asserting that a protective order was “particularly important” in this case because Mr. Trump has a longstanding habit of attacking those involved in criminal cases against him. Here is what to know about the protective order and what to expect. Discovery evidence represents the bulk of the information that criminal investigators collect during an inquiry. If the discovery evidence is particularly damning, it can also cause lawyers to advise their clients to plead guilty. Protective orders are typically put in place over discovery material to ensure that the case moves forward in an orderly fashion and with a measure of decorum.

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Shortly after, in a standard move early in a criminal prosecution, the government filed its request for a protective order in the case to Judge Chutkan. A short time after the government’s filing, Mr. Trump’s campaign issued a statement with no aide’s name attached, insisting he was practicing his First Amendment rights. “The Truth post cited is the definition of political speech,” the statement said, adding that it was in response to “dishonest special interest groups” and political committees attacking him. That Mr. Trump is a political candidate exercising free speech is going to be an element of his defense in the latest case against him. (It includes the New York attorney general, Letitia James, who has brought a civil action case.)

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☆ The next steps in the case include setting a timetable for getting to trial.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Charlie Savage | More About Charlie Savage | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The election case against former President Donald J. Trump will now move to the pretrial phase before Judge Tanya S. Chutkan after he pleaded not guilty on Thursday. The government has been asked to file a brief by Aug. 10 proposing a trial date and an estimate of how long it believes its part of the trial will take. Mr. Trump’s defense team will have to file a brief addressing those details by Aug. 17. The first hearing before Judge Chutkan to discuss such matters will be at 10 a.m. on Aug. 28, a magistrate judge, Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya, said. If the classified documents case is any guide, prosecutors are likely to argue for a speedy trial while Mr. Trump’s defense team urges Judge Chutkan to put the matter off until after the 2024 election.

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☆ Fact-Checking the Defenses of Trump After His Latest Indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Linda Qiu | More About Linda Qiu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Allies of former President Donald J. Trump have rushed to his defense since he was charged on Tuesday in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. They inaccurately attacked the judge assigned to oversee the trial, baselessly speculated that the timing of the accusations was intended to obscure misconduct by the Bidens and misleadingly compared his conduct to that of Democratic politicians. What Was Said“Judge Chutkan was appointed to the D.C. District Court by Barack Obama, and she has a reputation for being far left, even by D.C. District Court standards. Mr. Cruz is correct that Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, the trial judge overseeing Mr. Trump’s prosecution in the case, was appointed by President Barack Obama. While she has gained a reputation for handing down tough sentences to people convicted of crimes in the Jan. 6 riot, she is not the only federal judge who has exceeded prosecutors’ sentencing recommendations.

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☆ US District Judge Tanya Chutkan has been assigned to Trump's indictment. Here's what to know about her.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The United States District Court judge assigned to oversee the case is Tanya Chutkan. She's the only DC judge who has sentenced J6 rioters to longer sentences than prosecutors requested. So, who is Judge Chutkan? Chutkan went to George Washington University in Washington, DC, for her bachelor's degree. The office of Judge Chutkan did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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When former President Donald J. Trump appears in court before Judge Tanya S. Chutkan on charges of conspiring to subvert American democracy, it will not be the first time she has dealt with high-profile questions related to Mr. Trump’s attempts to stay in power after losing the 2020 election. Nearly two years ago, Judge Chutkan rejected Mr. Trump's efforts to prevent his White House records from being given to the House committee investigating his actions leading up to and during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters — delivering a swift and sharp rebuke about the limits of his ability as former president to invoke executive privilege. “Presidents are not kings,” she wrote, “and plaintiff is not president.”It is not clear when Judge Chutkan, 61, and Mr. Trump will first meet. He is set to appear before a magistrate judge for an initial court appearance on Thursday, where he is likely to be arraigned and enter a plea of not guilty — just as he did in June in a separate case involving his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House.

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