Manhattan DA Calls for No Further Delay in Trump Trial Despite Last-Minute Evidence Dump

Published on March 22, 2024

The Manhattan district attorney prosecuting former President Donald Trump’s so-called hush money case said the over 170,000 documents his office recently disclosed should not warrant further delay to the trial proceeding, since only fewer than 300 of that batch are potentially relevant. In a filing on Tuesday, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg asked the New York Supreme Court to ignore the request from the former president’s lawyers, who said they need the next several months to carefully examine the newly disclosed materials. The Trump legal team had requested the court to push back the trial date for at least 90 days so that they can extensively review more than 100,000 pages of records unexpectedly released by federal prosecutors last week. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, ultimately ordered a 30-day postponement after Mr. Bragg’s office consented out of an “abundance of caution.”...

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