Quote:During a hearing on Monday, Judge Tanya Chutkan argued that President Donald Trump’s lawyers should have begun going through the evidence in the DOJ's Jan 6 case against him even before the indictment was handed down. She argued against a 2026 start date for the federal 2020 election case, which the defense has been requesting.

In the transcript of the hearing, obtained by Julie Kelly, Chutkan said that "the government hasn’t identified any cases in this district where the length of time between the indictment and trial was roughly five months, although they did point to the Manafort case in the Eastern District of Virginia, which went to trial roughly five months after the superseding indictment."

Chutkan went on to say that "the manner in which the discovery in this case has been organized indicates that the government has made a considerable effort to expedite review."

Prosecutors had pushed back against the 2026 start date, arguing that Trump should already be familiar with much of the discovery materials, with prosecutor Molly Gaston writing in a previous court paper that around three million pages came from "entities associated with" Trump.

Hundreds of thousands of other pages have been publicly available, they state, among them "the defendant’s tweets, Truth Social posts, campaign statements and court papers involving challenges to the 2020 election by the defendant or his allies."

Gaston also said that around one million pages came from the House Select Committee on January 6, including a trove of interviews and depositions that she said were "already public in redacted form."

Chutkan, speaking to Trump's attorney John Lauro, said that he didn’t need more time than to the March 4 trial date to review the millions of pages of evidence. She said that this evidence, though it may be new to Lauro, "is material your client created or material that your client’s lawyers, maybe not you specifically, saw and reviewed and had possession of before this case."

Lauro had asked for the start date to be delayed until April 2026 so the defense has time to go through the more than 12.8 million pages of discovery that have been given by the DOJ to the defense team.

"For a federal prosecutor to suggest that we could go to trial in four months is not only absurd, it’s a violation of the oath of justice," Lauro said, according to the New York Times, adding, "We cannot do this in the time frame the government has outlined."

"You suggest that the defense needs a substantial amount of time to investigate, for example. The existence of the grand jury investigating in this case has been known for — since September 2022, almost a year, has been public knowledge," she said.

Lauro argued that "there’s no obligation for any American citizen to start conducting their own defense during a grand jury investigation and prepare for a trial when we don’t even know what the issues are, what the charges are."

Chutkan said that while there wasn’t an obligation to do so, "a good defense attorney, knowing that their client was under investigation by a grand jury … would already start."

The judge argued against a 2026 start date for a trial, arguing that "it’s not an unveiling — a surprise he’s been indicted. You’ve known this was coming. Mr. Trump’s counsel has known this was coming for some time."

During the hearing, Chitkan set a March 4, 2024 start for the trial of Trump in the 2020 election case brought forth by special counsel Jack Smith. This is one day before Super Tuesday, when 14 states head to the polls for the primary election.

It also comes around 20 days before Trump’s trial in Manhattan is set to start, on falsifying business records brought forth by District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Trump has vowed to appeal the decision, writing that "Deranged Jack Smith & his team of Thugs, who were caught going to the White House just prior to Indicting the 45th President of the United States (an absolute No No!), have been working on this Witch Hunt for almost 3 years, but decided to bring it smack in the middle of Crooked Joe Biden’s Political Opponent’s campaign against him."

"Today a biased, Trump Hating Judge gave me only a two month extension, just what our corrupt government wanted, SUPER TUESDAY. I will APPEAL!"

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Corrupt to the core. You must prepare for your defense before any Indictment is a silly and stupid thing to say

lol---and yet we still have people here who think this prosecution isn't political.

So I need to start preparing my defense for criminal indictments I might receive even if I haven't done anything wrong and could not possibly know what those potential indictments might include.

cool.


I wonder if Chutkan has started preparing her defense. You know, for later.

No way this is happening in America. Pretty sure Trump's attorneys he had a year ago are also being indicted. No way his current representation was hired until around the time of the news of indictment was coming down.

You see why the Dems are wanting to stack the SCOTUS.

Fall of the Republic started at some particular point in the past but it’s realization is being revealed right before our eyes in these last days

All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

That Judge is full as chit. Trump is being railroaded as anyone can see except for a few posters around here.

(08-29-2023 03:13 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

You use a headlamp daily?

(08-29-2023 03:13 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

You’re a grade-A idiot. No one rushes such a complex case this fast when other case less complicated have languished for years in federal court….ie Jan 6 defendants

(08-29-2023 03:13 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

(08-29-2023 02:49 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  lol---and yet we still have people here who think this prosecution isn't political.

Right?

Tanq & Tom will be along shortly to tell us that this is completely normal and this judge is a brilliant example of blind justice.

(08-29-2023 03:13 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

You can't even see the freight train bearing down on you and the rest of us. It's right in front of your face if you will but look up and see it. If you think you're somehow protected against it then man are you in for a rude awakening.

This is all the evidence a common sense governed person would need to understand the underlying criminality of these government goons. Of course the first moronotron has already weighed in. Waiting on the others. This should be good. “Double lolz”

(08-29-2023 03:13 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

Tell that to any criminal defendant lol. It is routine for run of the mill simple criminal cases to take a year to resolve. For serious cases multiple years. A case with millions of pages of docs should take several years. This judge is acting outrageously.

Paper american

(08-29-2023 04:48 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(08-29-2023 03:13 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  All he has are delay tactics because he knows he's guilty.

You can't even see the freight train bearing down on you and the rest of us. It's right in front of your face if you will but look up and see it. If you think you're somehow protected against it then man are you in for a rude awakening.

Exactly how I feel. All these lefty sycophants are going to be living in the same anti-freedom hell as the rest of us. How people can be blind to that is mind-boggling.

(08-29-2023 04:15 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-29-2023 02:49 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  lol---and yet we still have people here who think this prosecution isn't political.

Right?

Tanq & Tom will be along shortly to tell us that this is completely normal and this judge is a brilliant example of blind justice.

You won't hear from them on this.

(08-29-2023 07:28 PM)Eagleaidaholic Wrote:  

(08-29-2023 04:15 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-29-2023 02:49 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  lol---and yet we still have people here who think this prosecution isn't political.

Right?

Tanq & Tom will be along shortly to tell us that this is completely normal and this judge is a brilliant example of blind justice.

You won't hear from them on this.

Darn. I was kooking forward to some poorly reasoned nonsense with a touch of legalize.

Sparkles..