Jack Smith, left, in Washington, DC, on August 1, 2023 and former U.S. President Donald Trump, right, in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 8, 2022. The preposed March 4 trial date for Smith’s election obstruction case against Trump no longer appears in a DC court calendar.
Published February 2, 2024
Donald Trump’s scheduled start date for his federal 2020 election obstruction trial being removed from the public calendar has sparked intrigue and rumors from MAGA loyalists of the former president.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case—where Trump has pleaded not guilty to four charges under Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s investigation into the events which led up to the January 6 attack—originally set the start of the trial for March 4.
However, it has long been suspected that the start of the proceedings would be pushed back, as the case is on hold while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decides whether Trump should be immune from prosecution since the charges against him relate to his time in office. Despite hearing arguments on January 9 about whether the former president can cite absolute immunity to dismiss Smith’s case, it is unclear when the three-judge panel at the appeals court will make a decision.
It has now been revealed, as first reported by The Washington Post, that the March 4 trial date for Trump’s 2020 election case no longer appears in a public calendar at the federal court in Washington D.C., with the administrative move a sign that the trial will be delayed pending the immunity appeal process.
When the update was reported on social media, a number of MAGA figures speculated that the removal of the March 4 trial date from the public calendar meant that the case will be dropped entirely.
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SOURCE: www.newsweek.com
RELATED: BREAKING: Trump Election Interference Case in Washington DC Has Been Removed from Court Calendar – Postponed Indefinitely
Radical anti-Trump Judge Tanya Chutkan and President Donald Trump
Published February 2, 2024
According to several reports the Trump election interference case in Washington DC has been removed from the court calendar.
The case has been postponed indefinitely.
The lawsuit against the former US President was originally scheduled for March 4, 2024 before Super Tuesday.
This is a huge blow to radical Obama Judge Tanya Chatkun and the Marxist horde in America.
The Democrat Party and globalist left was hoping to use this lawfare case to damage Trump in the mainstream media before Super Tuesday.
Now they have to focus on the ridiculous lawfare cases in the communist New York City courts to damage Trump that have already been decided before they start.
The DC case was removed from the calendar within the last five days.
The Washington Post reported:
Former president Donald Trump’s March 4 trial date on charges of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election has been dropped from the public calendar of the federal court in Washington, a sign of what has long been anticipated — that his claim of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would delay his trial while it remains on appeal.
The change did not appear on the official criminal case docket before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who has made clear since Trump filed his appeal on Dec. 7 that all trial deadlines would be suspended while he challenges the case. On appeal, Trump is arguing that the government does not have authority under the Constitution to bring charges against him for actions he took while president after the 2020 election through the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, when he attempted to prevent Congress from confirming Joe Biden’s election victory.
A delay in the D.C. case makes it increasingly likely that the first of Trump’s four criminal trials could be held this spring in Manhattan on New York state charges of business fraud in connection with hush money payments during the 2016 election. That trial has nominally been set for March 25, but the court in that case has signaled deference to Trump’s federal election subversion case. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has scheduled a pretrial hearing in two weeks — Feb. 15 — and is expected to decide after that if the trial will go forward as planned.
As of at least Thursday, the March 4 trial date was dropped from a date-searchable calendar on the public website of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It was not immediately clear when it was removed. An internal master court trial calendar distributed Jan. 26 showed Trump’s trial date, suggesting the change was recent, according to a federal official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an internal document.
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SOURCE: www.thegatewaypundit.com
RELATED: Judge hints at delay for Trump’s March trial date in federal election case
Judge Tanya Chutkan suggested that Trump will get additional time to prepare for trial if appellate courts reject his claims of immunity.
In a six-page order, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan barred special counsel Jack Smith from filing substantive new motions while Trump is seeking to have the case thrown out on “presidential immunity” grounds. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Published January 18, 2024
The judge overseeing the federal criminal case against Donald Trump for attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election indicated Thursday that the March 4 trial date is unlikely to hold.
In a six-page order, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan barred special counsel Jack Smith from filing substantive new motions without advance permission while Trump is seeking to have the case thrown out on “presidential immunity” grounds.
The judge, an appointee of President Barack Obama, noted that she set the March trial date last August to allow Trump and his attorneys seven months to prepare.
But that clock was paused in December, after Trump appealed Chutkan’s determination that Trump was not immune from criminal prosecution. The appeal also meant that all of Chutkan’s previously established deadlines for pretrial filings were paused as well, freeing Trump from any legal steps he might need to or choose to take in advance of trial.
In Thursday’s order, Chutkan suggested that the time that has elapsed since his appeal would not be counted against him if the case gets back on track.
“Contrary to Defendant’s assertion, the court has not and will not set deadlines in this case based on the assumption that he has undertaken preparations when not required to do so,” she wrote.
That remark suggests that a delay of weeks or even months in the trial is possible, as Trump’s bid to dismiss the case remains pending before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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SOURCE: www.politico.com
