‘The court has regained jurisdiction’: Trump gets a new and fast-approaching hearing date as Jan. 6 case makes its way back to federal judge appointed by Barack Obama

Donald Trump, on the left; Tankya Chutkan, on the right

Left: Donald Trump (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, POOL). Right: U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia).

After blowing past a 5 p.m. deadline on Thursday, the defense for Donald Trump late filed, without the objection of special counsel Jack Smith, documents supporting pending motions on the “scope of the prosecution team” and discovery requests on issues as wide-ranging as the SolarWinds hack of 2020, “FISA abuses,” and whether government “operatives” were present on Jan. 6. The lawyers maintain that the Jan. 6 case should be “promptly” thrown out as a consequence of the Supreme Court immunity decision in Trump v. United States and the special counsel’s “stubborn reliance” on details about Trump’s communications with then Vice President Mike Pence in the superseding indictment.

Trump lawyers and prosecutors recently wrangled in U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s courtroom on how best to proceed with the case that Smith tailored to emphasize the defendant’s alleged private conduct as a candidate to overturn his 2020 election loss. While the judge was clear that she was not at all “concerned” about scheduling deadlines in the lead-up to the “not relevant” 2024 election, Trump attorney John Lauro immediately asserted that protecting the “integrity” of the “upcoming election” was one of several reasons the case should be thrown out.

Among the others? That the “false and exaggerated allegations relating to” Pence render the revised indictment “void ab initio,” a fancy way of saying “doomed from the get-go.”

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