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.

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    1 year ago

    We should not entertain the notion that anyone has to power to self-pardon.

    I mean yes, he’ll try it if he’s elected, and his pet Supreme Court judges may even allow it, but the very notion is absurd.