{"id":1972447,"date":"2023-07-13T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-rebukes-trump-push-to-delay-trial-in-classified-documents-case\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:18:17","slug":"justice-department-rebukes-trump-push-to-delay-trial-in-classified-documents-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-rebukes-trump-push-to-delay-trial-in-classified-documents-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department rejects Trump&#8217;s request to postpone trial in classified documents case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-rebukes-trump-push-to-delay-trial-in-classified-documents-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972447&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department of Justice Rejects Trump&#8217;s Request to Delay Trial<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Justice has strongly rebuked former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to postpone his criminal trial in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-reject-trump-request-in-fbi-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump Request in FBI Classified Documents Case\">classified documents case<\/a> until after the 2024 election. Special counsel Jack Smith has urged Judge Aileen Cannon to proceed with jury selection on Thursday and requested that the trial begin on December 11.<\/p>\n<h3>FTC Investigating ChatGPT Over Allegations of Consumer Harm<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s attorneys filed a motion on Monday to delay the trial, arguing that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rnc-launches-new-year-round-election-integrity-department-ahead-of-2024\/\" title=\"RNC creates year-round Election Integrity Department for 2024.\">upcoming presidential race<\/a> could pose challenges in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-rebukes-trump-push-to-delay-trial-in-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"Justice Department rejects Trump's request to postpone trial in classified documents case.\">selecting impartial jurors<\/a> and that the trial could impact the election outcome.<\/p>\n<p>However, Smith responded to Trump&#8217;s request on Thursday, vehemently opposing the motion and stating that there is &#8220;no basis in law or fact&#8221; for the delay.<\/p>\n<p>Since Trump was charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-trump-addressed-supporters-msnbc-maddow-took-humiliatingly-hypocritical-stand\/\" title=\"MSNBC's Maddow hypocritically criticized Trump's speech to supporters.\">37 federal felony counts<\/a> in June, his defense has relied on the Presidential Records Act, claiming that he was allowed to retain the classified documents. Trump&#8217;s attorney and co-defendant, Walt Nauta, wrote in a court filing that the intersection between the Presidential Records Act and the criminal statutes at issue has never been addressed by any court and could result in a dismissal of the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Smith strongly disagreed with this argument, stating that using the Presidential Records Act as a defense &#8220;borders on frivolous.&#8221; The 1978 law clearly establishes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-january-6-committee-threatens-to-hold-trumps-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-in-contempt-of-congress\/\" title=\"BREAKING: January 6 Committee Threatens To Hold Trump\u2019s Chief Of Staff Mark Meadows In Contempt Of Congress\">presidential records<\/a> must be transferred to the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has emphasized the need for a speedy trial in the documents case and has dismissed the idea that Trump&#8217;s busy schedule should be a reason for delay, stating that many indicted defendants have demanding jobs and travel extensively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice strongly criticized ex-President Donald Trump&#8217;s plea to postpone his criminal trial in the classified documents case until after the 2024 election. Special counsel Jack Smith urged Judge Aileen Cannon to proceed with jury selection on Thursday, disregarding Trump&#8217;s attempts to delay the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}