(Reuters) -U.S. District Choose Tanya Chutkan scheduled a pretrial assembly on Aug. 16 within the U.S. felony case accusing Donald Trump of illegally making an attempt to overturn his 2020 election defeat, a court docket doc confirmed on Saturday.
Chutkan’s order comes a day after she regained jurisdiction within the case which had been on pause for almost eight months to permit for Trump to get his presidential immunity declare adjudicated.
She is anticipated to determine within the coming weeks which elements of the indictment obtained by Particular Counsel Jack Smith should be tossed out after the Supreme Court docket dominated that former presidents are entitled to broad immunity for official actions taken whereas in workplace.
Trump has pleaded not responsible to 4 felony counts accusing him of a multi-part conspiracy to subvert his 2020 election loss.
In a court docket doc on Saturday, Chutkan mentioned Trump won’t be required to look in court docket for the standing convention on Aug. 16. All events had been requested to suggest a schedule for pretrial proceedings by Aug. 9.
Trump’s lawyer was not instantly accessible for remark.
Chutkan additionally denied two of Trump’s motions to dismiss the costs in opposition to him, one on the idea of statutory grounds and one on the idea of vindictive and selective prosecution.
Trump could file a renewed movement in any case problems with immunity have been resolved, she mentioned.
The Supreme Court docket’s choice to take up the immunity declare case, which it heard on its final day of arguments in April and dominated on July 1, made all of it however inconceivable for the felony case to go to trial earlier than the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.
Chutkan has beforehand promised to offer Trump about 90 days to arrange for trial as soon as the case returns to her courtroom, with a trial anticipated to final six to eight weeks.
Trump, the primary former U.S. president to be criminally prosecuted, is the Republican nominee for president. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday secured the delegate votes wanted to clinch the Democratic nomination.
