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5 Sep 2024


NextImg:Federal Judge Skeptical Of Trump's Argument That Jan. 6 Case Should Be Postponed
Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump stand outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
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WASHINGTON ― The federal judge handling Donald Trump’s criminal case for his actions related to Jan. 6, 2021, sounds deeply skeptical of his lawyers’ request to postpone proceedings so that no new evidence against him can come out before the November election.

“This court is not concerned with the electoral schedule,” U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan told lawyer John Lauro on Thursday. “That’s nothing I’m going to consider.”

Thursday’s hearing is the first for the case since a Supreme Court ruling in July that gave the former president immunity for “official acts.”

Special counsel Jack Smith filed a revised indictment of Trump last week that retains the four felony charges from the original 2023 case: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstructing an official proceeding; and conspiracy to deprive millions of Americans of their right to have their votes counted. However, it removes references to Trump’s attempts to coerce Department of Justice officials into falsely claiming that fraud had marred the 2020 election.

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Chutkan is expected to lay out a schedule for the revised indictment Thursday.

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