Jack Smith Fights to Preserve March 4 Trial Date For Trump in DC Case | The Gateway Pundit

Particular Counsel Jack Smith is combating to maintain the March 4 trial date in his January 6 case in opposition to Trump in DC.

In September Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case up in DC: Conspiracy to defraud the USA, conspiracy to impede an official continuing, obstruction of and try and impede an official continuing, and conspiracy in opposition to rights.

Trump’s trial date for Jack Smith’s January 6 case is presently scheduled for March 4, 2024 (election interference).

In a submitting on Sunday, Jack Smith’s prosecutors requested Obama-appointed Decide Tanya Chutkan to not delay the trial.

“In light of the public’s strong interest in a prompt trial, the Government will seek to ensure that the trial proceeds as scheduled,” Smith’s prosecutors wrote in a 3-page court filing on Sunday.

Excerpt from Politico:

Prosecutors are urging a federal decide to not disturb the primary trial date former President Donald Trump is dealing with in his 4 pending prison instances, arguing that an attraction he filed final week doesn’t imply all elements of the election-subversion prosecution pending in Washington should grind to a halt.

The result of this combat could decide whether or not Trump faces any of his 4 pending prison trials in 2024. His different three stay in flux or unscheduled. And if the D.C. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals or the Supreme Courtroom think about the previous president’s immunity claims on their typical timelines, which will power Chutkan to decelerate her personal.

Whereas legal professionals from particular counsel Jack Smith’s staff pleaded with Chutkan to not alter the March 4 date, they appeared to concede that Trump’s protection gained’t be obliged to reply to most authorized points within the case whereas his attraction claiming presidential immunity is pending on the D.C. Circuit.

President Trump additionally requested Decide Aileen Cannon to postpone Jack Smith’s categorized paperwork case in Florida.

Decide Cannon recently ordered some pretrial deadlines to be moved, nonetheless, she denied Trump’s bid to postpone the Could 20 trial date within the categorized paperwork case.