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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is expected to announce today a tentative start date for the Justice Department’s election conspiracy trial against former President Donald Trump. His lawyers have asked for an April 2026 trial date, citing the need to review millions of pages of documents. The special counsel team says it’s ready for a January 2024 trial. Here’s where Trump’s civil and criminal suits stand so far.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan has been assigned to the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump.
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- Chutkan established herself decades ago at the Public Defender Service, defending low-income people accused of crimes. Read about her tough sentencing record.
- NPR’s Carrie Johnson spoke to several of Chutkan’s colleagues and friends. D.C.’s Attorney General Karl Racine says Chutkan made it “very clear she’s going to move this case in a way that doesn’t compromise justice and fairness” for Trump.
Residents in Jacksonville, Fla., are mourning after a gunman killed three Black people at a Dollar General store before killing himself on Saturday. Officials say the gunman left behind writings filled with racial slurs, and the Justice Department is now investigating the shooting as a hate crime.
- WJCT’s Will Brown attended three vigils over the weekend, where he says there was an overarching sense of sadness for the victims, as well as anger and resolve to ensure this type of violence doesn’t happen again. A school principal told him that teaching against racism…
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