{"id":2007401,"date":"2023-08-21T19:34:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-2026-trial-proposal-for-election-subversion-case-should-be-rejected-doj\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T19:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T23:34:48","slug":"trumps-2026-trial-proposal-for-election-subversion-case-should-be-rejected-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-2026-trial-proposal-for-election-subversion-case-should-be-rejected-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ should reject Trump&#8217;s 2026 trial proposal for election subversion 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\">22<\/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%2Ftrumps-2026-trial-proposal-for-election-subversion-case-should-be-rejected-doj%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=2007401&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--><blockquote>\n<h2>Special Counsel Rejects\u2063 Trump&#8217;s Attempt to Delay Trial<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s bid to postpone \u200chis federal trial in\u2062 Washington, D.C., until 2026 has been met with\u2064 resistance from Special Counsel Jack Smith. Smith argues that such a \u2063delay would infringe \u200dupon the public&#8217;s\u2064 right to a speedy trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In service of\u2064 a \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-reacts-to-proposed-january-date-for-election-trial\/\" title=\"Trump responds to suggested January trial date for election case.\">proposed trial date<\/a> in 2026 that would deny the public \u200dits right to a speedy trial, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-2026-trial-proposal-for-election-subversion-case-should-be-rejected-doj\/\" title=\"DOJ should reject Trump's 2026 trial proposal for election subversion case.\">defendant cites\u200b inapposite statistics<\/a> and cases, overstates the amount of new and non-duplicative discovery, and exaggerates the challenge of \u2062reviewing it effectively,&#8221; Smith&#8217;s team stated in a court\u2062 filing on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Prosecutors Dismiss Trump&#8217;s Trial\u200b Date Proposal<\/h3>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s legal team had suggested an April 2026 trial date, citing the \u2062massive amount of potential evidence provided by\u2063 prosecutors, which amounts to 11.5 million pages. \u2062However, Smith&#8217;s team\u200c argues that a\u2063 significant portion of this evidence \u2063consists of duplicate pages or information already available to the \u2063public, such as documents from the House committee investigating the Capitol riot and Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors\u2062 also took issue with the Trump team&#8217;s use\u2062 of creative metaphors to describe the volume of materials. They emphasized that the burden of reviewing discovery cannot be\u200c measured by page count alone and that comparisons to\u200d the Washington \u200cMonument&#8217;s height or the length of a\u2062 Tolstoy novel are unhelpful distractions.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Smith&#8217;s team pointed out that Trump&#8217;s proposal is based on the false\u200b assumption that\u200d attorneys \u2062would need to manually review all the discovery, which is not consistent with modern practices.<\/p>\n<h3>Prosecutors Suggest an Earlier Trial Date<\/h3>\n<p>Prosecutors have put forward a trial date\u2064 of\u2064 January 2, 2024.\u2064 The\u2062 final decision\u2062 on the scheduling\u2064 request will be made by Judge Tankya Chutkan, potentially \u200cas early as the next\u200c status conference on \u2063August \u200c28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, special counsel Jack Smith rejected former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attempt to postpone his federal trial in Washington, D.C. 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