U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan rejected a request on Tuesday from former President Donald Trump to delay a hearing until next week in the case related to the 2020 election, instead setting it for Friday morning.

Trump's attorneys had asked the judge to postpone the hearing until next Monday or Tuesday after Chutkan asked both Trump and special counsel Jack Smith to choose a date of Friday or earlier, according to court filings.

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Trump's defense team said the former president would not be present for the hearing and that Trump wanted attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche both to appear for it.

Blanche would not be available Thursday because he had to appear in court in Florida in a separate federal case against Trump regarding classified documents, while Lauro could be available Thursday afternoon, the filing said.

Prosecutors stated they could be available Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.

Trump's attorneys did not acknowledge Wednesday as an option and wrote in their postponement request that they "lost Friday as an option" without indicating a reason for why that day was off the table. Blanche's office declined to comment on the reason, and Lauro did not respond to a request for comment.

Chutkan, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama and has been described as the "toughest punisher" of defendants in Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases, made the decision minutes after Trump laid into her on his social media platform Truth Social, tying her to Hunter Biden's lucrative board position at a Ukrainian energy company in 2014.

Trump wrote: "The Obama appointed Judge in the FREE SPEECH Indictment of me by my political opponent, Crooked Joe Biden’s Department of InJustice, shared professional ties at the law firm that worked for Energy Company Burisma, based in Ukraine, of which Hunter Biden and his associate were “proud” MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, and were paid Millions of Dollars, even though Hunter knew almost NOTHING about Energy."

He added, "How much was the law firm paid? So Horrible. This is a CLASSIC Conflict of Interest! 'GATEWAY PUNDIT.'"

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The hearing will center on a dispute between Trump and Smith over a protective order, a typical request from the prosecution that governs how certain material in discovery is handled.

Trump's team has argued that Smith's proposed order is too restrictive and violates his free speech rights, while Smith's prosecutors have said they have a "substantial" amount of discovery, much of which is "sensitive" and requires tight rules.