Trump lawyers demand emergency hearing as they urge judge to dismiss Bragg case

Donald Trump's attorneys in his criminal hush money case accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of "significant and ongoing discovery violations" and are demanding hearing to discuss their accusations, newly released court records show.

The hearing demanded by Todd Blanche and Susan Necheles would be the week of March 25 — the same week Trump's New York City trial was slated to begin.

Their request arrives as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York sends tens of thousands of pages to the Manhattan District Attorney's office, spurring outrage from Trump's team over the delayed document dump.

"The Court should reject the People’s effort to ward off President Trump’s pending motion to dismiss the Indictment, which is based on the People’s significant and ongoing discovery violations," the letter reads.

The lawyers then demand copies of the documents, a hearing to discuss the "violations," and a delay longer than the 30 days to which Bragg acquiesced earlier this week.

"The People’s consent to an adjournment of the trial is a necessary step towards a just resolution of these proceedings," they write, "or at the very least, for inquiry and fact-finding into the circumstances that put Your Honor and President Trump in this position based on ongoing discovery violations."

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The letter has been redacted to exclude details about "critical facts" Trump's lawyers claim were omitted from Bragg's March 12 filing about undisclosed information delivered from a blacked-out source.

"We immediately expressed our concerns about the significance of that untimely production, as a forensic review and collection of discoverable data from should have been conducted many months ago," the lawyers write.

While Blanche and Necheles point the delay blame at the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Bragg argued Trump's lawyers were at fault in a letter released Thursday.

"[Trump] waited until January 18, 2 2024 to subpoena additional materials from the USAO and then consented to repeated extensions of the deadline for the [U.S. Attorney's office's] determination," the March 14th letter reads. "The timing of the USAO's productions is a result solely of defendant's delay despite the People's diligence."

This is one of four criminal cases the former President faces and, as are his Georgia state and Washington D.C. federal cases, it is linked to election interference allegations, albeit a different election.

While Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special counsel Jack Smith accuse Trump of criminally interfering with the 2020 presidential election, Bragg has his gaze set on 2016.

The Manhattan District Attorney charged Trump with falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Trump has pleaded not guilty.