A judge has set the trial date for former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case, booking it one day before Super Tuesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, ordered the trial to begin on March 4, 2024.
Trump’s legal team had requested a trial date in 2026 to avoid conflicts with the presidential election cycle, while the federal government urged for an earlier date.
Instead, Chutkan picked the day before several key states hold their primary elections for the presidential nominee.
“Setting a trial date does not depend and should not depend on a defendant’s personal obligations,” Chutkan said, according to NPR.
Trump has previously denounced Chutkan’s handling of his case, claiming it amounted to election interference. He shared a social media post that quoted her telling his attorneys, “The fact that he’s running a political campaign has to yield to the orderly administration of justice. If that means he can’t say exactly what he wants to say about witnesses in this case, that’s how it has to be.”
The trial is just one of the legal battles the former president is in the midst of fighting while running once again for the White House.
As reported by The Dallas Express, Trump was recently arrested on election interference charges in Georgia, where the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office took his now famous mugshot.
The legal cases being leveled against Trump have been denounced by political voices from across the country, claiming that they represent an attempt by President Joe Biden to lock up his leading opponent.
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) said, “The weaponized state and federal judicial process must come to an end. America sees the corrupt two-tiered system that is being used to target the top political opponent of both Biden and the administrative state. We must save our Republic, we must stand with President Trump.”
Others, however, have celebrated Trump’s legal challenges, with Rep. Nikema Williams (D-GA) saying it showed that “the law applied equally to everyone even failed former presidents.”
