Legal Analysts Say Judge Likely Will Postpone Trump Trial

Several legal experts wrote that the federal judge in former President Donald Trump’s election-related case likely will postpone his trial, which is currently scheduled for March, after several recent orders. Earlier in January, Judge Tanya Chutkan appeared to suggest that his trial date might be pushed back in an order that denied Jack Smith, the special counsel overseeing he case, to file any new major motions to push the case forward. It’s because the former president, she wrote, is currently appealing his case on grounds that he has presidential immunity and paused the case in December. Weeks later, the federal judge, who is based in Washington, scheduled the trial date for an alleged  Jan. 6, 2021, defendant to begin on April 2, which is just over three weeks from when President Trump’s trial is scheduled to begin, while prosecutors have said the trial likely will last at least four weeks....