Trump attorneys ask for delay in his federal trial, citing 2024 election

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and longtime Trump aide Walt Nauta asked Judge Aileen Cannon late Monday night to delay setting a trial date for their federal case in Florida.

"Proceeding to trial during the pendency of a Presidential election cycle wherein opposing candidates are effectively directly adverse to one another in this action will create extraordinary challenges," the former president and current Republican presidential candidate's lawyers argued. In appointing special counsel Jack Smith to take over the Trump investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland indicated the move was intended to avoid politicization.

And, his lawyers suggested, there's no urgent reason to hold the trial at this time. Trump's legal team has not yet made legal arguments in court about how the Presidential Records Act would affect the case and did not describe their theory in Monday night's filing.

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