The former president will now stand trial in May of next year on charges that he mishandled classified material, according to a court filing Friday.
"There is no basis in law or fact for proceeding in such an indeterminate and open-ended fashion, and the Defendants provide none," prosecutor David Harbach wrote in his filing. "[E]ven accepting the Government's contested submission that nothing in this case presents a 'novel question of fact or law,' the fact remains that the Court will be faced with extensive pre-trial motion practice on a diverse number of legal and factual issues, all in connection with a 38-count indictment," the judge added.