Judge hints that Trump’s election interference trial might be delayed
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6HZ7N)
The case was automatically frozen after the ex-president appealed judge's decision to reject his motion to toss criminal charges
The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results indicated on Thursday that the scheduled trial date would not hold as a result of the case being frozen while the former US president appeals to have the charges dismissed.
The US district judge Tanya Chutkan last summer scheduled the trial in Washington DC to start on 4 March - allowing Trump and his team seven months to prepare his defense - and has taken pains to ensure that date would not be delayed.
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