Trump's trials headed for a collision course over scheduling: report
Former President Donald Trump's four criminal trials are on a potential collision course with scheduling and dates — to the point where it's possible that only one of these trials could be heard before the 2024 election, reported The Messenger on Thursday evening.
"By all accounts, including her own, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has no intention of budging on the March 4, 2024, start date of Trump’s Washington D.C. trial on federal election-subversion charges," reported Steve Reilly and Darren Samuelsohn. "But even Chutkan, an appointee of President Barack Obama, doesn’t have total control over her schedule: Trump’s lawyers are pressing to get a pre-trial ruling from Chutkan on whether their client has absolute immunity from Special Counsel Jack Smith's criminal charges due to his status as a former president of the United States."
The uncertainty there is affecting other trial dates, too, said the report: "The D.C. trial currently on the books is scheduled to run for two months or longer, which, if that timetable holds, all but guarantees the need to shift Trump’s trial date that’s currently set to begin March 25 in New York."...