Lawyers argue earlier date would violate ex-president’s constitutional rights but special counsel expected to oppose two-year delay
asked the judge presiding over his federal 2020 election interference case to schedule his trial for April 2026 – more than two and a half years from now.
In a 16-page filing on Thursday, the lawyers argued that putting Trump on trial this coming January –– would mark a “rush to trial” that would violate his constitutional rights and be “flatly impossible” given the extraordinary volume of discovery evidence they will have to sort through. Trump’s lawyers wrote:
The government’s objective is clear: to deny President Trump and his counsel a fair ability to prepare for trial.is expected to oppose the April 2026 start date, which would put the trial long after the 2024 presidential election, in which Trump is the current frontrunner for the Republican nomination. US district court judgeMeanwhile,Fumio Kishida,
to Camp David today for the first-ever trilateral summit with the three countries, as the US hopes to cement ties with its two most important allies in Asia amid an increasingly assertive China and a nuclear-armed North Korea. Washington’s ties with Tokyo and Seoul are “stronger than they have been at any point in modern memory”, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at a Friday briefing, as he confirmed the US will announce “significant steps to enhance trilateral security cooperation” including new collaborations on missile defence and technology when the three leaders meet for their first standalone summit.Yoon Suk Yeol,Biden, Yoon and Kishida will hold a joint press conference.
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