The judge in Donald Trump‘s federal election case has cut down his attempts to delay the case, telling the former president’s lawyers: “We can all walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Her comments came after a prosecutor said that his office needed up to three weeks to write a new opening brief for the trial. Trump’s lawyers sought to delay discovery proceedings until after the government had filed the brief to Chutkan’s court in Washington, D.C.
But Chutkan could see no reason why they couldn’t deal with discovery in the same time period, and asked Lauro: “If I give the special counsel the time they’re asking for, the three weeks, why can’t you discuss discovery that you haven’t been given that relates to immunity?”
The remarks were recorded by MSNBC legal analyst Katie Phang, who was in court and wrote verbatim quotes on X, formerly Twitter.
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