Judge rejects Trump bid to push federal election trial to 2026 - Lemmy.world

The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal election interference case shut down a bid by the former president to set his trial more than two-and-a-half years away. “This case is not going to trial in 2026,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said in a hearing Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., NBC News reported. But the judge also said that she would reject a proposal by federal prosecutors to bring the case to trial in less than five months.