Chutkan rebuffs Trump effort to upend Jan. 6 case schedule
Source: The Hill
09/24/24 3:11 PM ET
Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday rebuffed a request from former President Trump asking her to upend previously set deadlines and bar a lengthy filing from special counsel Jack Smith.
The order from Chutkan comes after Trump lodged multiple complaints about a decision made shortly after a Sept. 5 hearing that allowed Smith’s team to first file their brief laying out how to proceed in the case in the wake of a decision from the Supreme Court granting former presidents broad immunity. Chutkan chastised Trump’s attorneys for repeatedly asking her to reconsider her schedule and allow them to kick off discussion of the immunity issue “several months from now” in unrelated filings.
“For the second time in a week, Defendant urges reconsideration of the current pretrial schedule in a brief intended to respond to a separate issue, and without actually filing a motion to that effect,” she wrote. “The court has already addressed the scheduling objections Defendant raised when he was given an opportunity to do so.”
In the same order Chutkan grants Smith’s request to file a 180-page opening brief on how to address the immunity issues in the case, a request which likewise earned pushback from Trump’s team.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4897015-judge-rejects-trump-request/
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