Judge Chutkan is serving notice to Trump that she is speeding up his trial: legal analyst

A decision by U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Tanya Chutkan to accelerate putting together a jury that will hear testimony in special counsel Jack Smith's 2020 election interference trial targeting Donald Trump is a signal to the former president that she has no intention of letting the proceedings drag out.

While Trump's legal teams doing everything they can to delay his multiple trials, Chutkan is swiftly addressing motions and, this week, moved the date up to create the jury that will hear the case she will preside over.

According to former prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, Chutkan, with the date change, is serving notice to the former president and his lawyers that she is not messing around.

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Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the former prosecutor told host Johnathan Capehart, I have selected juries in big RICO cases in that very courthouse, and it's is a long and arduous process. What it looks like the judge is doing is bringing jurors in on February 9th. I think it's worth noting that all we knew previously that jury selection would begin on March 4th."

"She has now, in a sense, bumped it up almost a month and that really does give life to her statement in court that she made during the argument on the gag order that this trial will not yield to an election cycle," he explained. "It looks like she is determined to go full speed ahead and hold this trial in accordance with the trial schedule that she sets, which is unlike what we are seeing in Trump's documents, obstruction and espionage case down in Florida."

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