Trump Judge Sets October Briefing Deadlines in Election Case (1)

The federal judge presiding over the 2020 election-interference prosecution against Donald Trump set a series of deadlines in the coming weeks for the next phase of the immunity fight, rejecting a more protracted schedule from the former president’s lawyers.

At a hearing earlier on Thursday US District Judge Tanya Chutkan suggested Trump’s defense team was trying to drag out the case as he campaigns for a return to the White House in the Nov. 5 election, a claim his lawyers disputed.

Chutkan ordered prosecutors and the defense to file briefs by late October on whether the revised version of the ...