Trump proposes April 2026 trial in federal election subversion case
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By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is asking the federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal election subversion case against him to set the trial for April 2026.
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Former President Donald Trump wants a federal judge to reject special counsel Jack Smith's request to get the trial underway in early January of next year.
Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to put off until 2026 a trial in Washington on charges that the former president plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump is asking the federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal election subversion case against him to set the trial for April 2026.
Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked a federal judge to set an April 2026 trial date in the case in Washington charging the former president with conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Former President Donald Trump's legal team is seeking to push back the proposed trial date for one of four indictment cases against the Republican frontrunner.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are requesting that the federal election interference trial not begin until April 2026 so they have enough time to prepare.
Request comes as lead prosecutor calls for January 2, 2024 opening in the case, one of four that former president faces in middle of White House reelection campaign
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump proposed a trial date for his federal election interference case on Thursday, requesting the trial to begin in April 2026, more than two years after federal prosecutors requested.
Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday requested an April 2026 trial date on the federal charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election -- long after next year's presidential vote.
The start date would place the trial nearly two years into the next presidential term, and is well beyond the Jan. 2, 2024 date special counsel Jack Smith requested.
The lawyers said the extraordinary delay was needed given the historic nature of the case and the volume of discovery materials they will have to sort through in the coming months.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to put off until 2026 a trial in Washington on charges that the former president plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
