Donald Trump's legal team was back in court on Thursday in Washington, DC, to face Judge Tanya Chutkan for the status conference related to his January 6th trial.
Trump's lawyers entered a plea of Not Guilty to the charges in DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith's superseding indictment and pushed for a trial date after the November election.
However, the Judge told Trump's team, "This court is not concerned with the electoral schedule. That's nothing I'm going to consider."
The judge suggested that Trump’s legal team's plan is catered to his 2024 political campaign so that evidence is not presented in court while he vies for the White House.
“It strikes me that what you’re trying to do is affect the presentation of evidence in this case so as not to impinge on an election,” Chutkan said.
The judge said she was “not talking about presidents of the United States,” but rather a “four-count indictment.”
Responding to Trump's lawyers' request for a delay, the judge reminded them the case had already been pending for over a year. “We’re hardly sprinting to judgment here,” adding that there needs to be “forward motion” in the case regardless of the election’s timing.
However, the judge was also forced to admit that she "expects immunity will stop these proceedings again” and that it would be “an exercise in futility” to set a trial date in Trump’s January 6th case.
Trump's lawyers will be in a New York courtroom on Friday to resume their immunity bid to drop all charges against Trump in the E. Jean Carroll case.