Donald Trump notched a win on Friday when Judge Cannon granted him a pause in his Mar-a-Lago classified documents schedule, but he wasn't so fortunate in his D.C. elections case.
Trump filed multiple requests for delay in the election subversion case before Judge Chutkan, but she mostly rejected the former president's arguments.
National security attorney Bradley Moss drew attention to the filing.
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"Judge Chutkan largely rejects Trump's requests to delay the DC filing and trial deadlines, although she gives him some additional time to file some motions," Moss wrote. "Also rejects request to order declassified version of Government's CIPA filing."
In Chutkan's filing, which mostly rejects two separate motions for delay filed by Trump's legal team, one legal expert flagged evidence that Chutkan may be losing patience with the defendant's tactics for delay.
Lawfare's senior editor Roger Parloff said he initially missed a "hint of snark" in the ruling.
"Still, the court will allow the defense an opportunity to explain why it believes that CIPA’s statutory text and Circuit precedent do not govern this case," Chutkan wrote in the Friday order.
Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman hailed the decision.
"An overall very reasonable order from Chutkan -- Trump wins some, loses some, none of it amount to a lot of time -- and in particular no extension for the CIPA litigation," he wrote.
