Judge declines for now to push again Trump’s labeled paperwork trial however postpones different deadlines

WASHINGTON — A federal choose in Florida on Friday declined to delay Donald Trump’s labeled paperwork trial, calling a request by the previous president’s protection attorneys to postpone the date “premature.” But she pushed again different deadlines within the case and signaled that she would revisit the trial date later.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon implies that the trial, for now at the least, stays scheduled to start on May 20, 2024 regardless of efforts by the Trump group to postpone it till after subsequent November’s presidential election.

Trump‘s lawyers had argued that they needed more time to review the large trove of evidence with which they’d been offered and in addition cited scheduling challenges ensuing from the opposite authorized circumstances towards Trump, together with three further prison prosecutions for which he’s awaiting trial. Special counsel Jack Smith’s group had vigorously opposed that place in urging the choose to depart the trial date intact.

Cannon signaled throughout a listening to this month, and once more in her written order on Friday, that she was sympathetic to the protection arguments. She famous the “unusually high volume of classified and unclassified evidence” concerned within the case, in addition to the truth that Trump is at present scheduled subsequent March to face each a federal trial in Washington and a trial on state costs in New York.

“Although the Special Counsel is correct that the trajectory of these matters potentially remains in flux, the schedules as they currently stand overlap substantially with the deadlines in this case, presenting additional challenges to ensuring Defendant Trump has adequate time to prepare for trial and to assist in his defense,” Cannon wrote.

She pushed again a number of deadlines for submitting and responding to pretrial motions however saved the trial date in place, although she mentioned she would think about the protection request once more at a scheduling convention subsequent March.

The case in Florida consists of dozens of felony costs accusing the Republican former president of illegally retaining labeled paperwork at his Palm Beach property, Mar-a-Lago, and hiding them from authorities investigators. Trump has pleaded not responsible.

Trump is at present set for trial on March 4, 2024, in Washington on federal costs that he plotted to overturn the 2020 presidential election, which he misplaced to Democrat Joe Biden. He additionally faces costs in Georgia accusing him of making an attempt to subvert that state’s vote, in addition to one other state case in New York accusing him of falsifying enterprise information in reference to hush cash funds to porn actor Stormy Daniels forward of the 2016 election.

In addition, Trump has been sued in a enterprise fraud case in New York, the place a trial is happening. Trump has denied wrongdoing in all the circumstances, claiming with out proof that they’re a part of a politically motivated effort to stop him from returning to the White House.