Trump has been charged with three pre-election hush-money cases, including the one made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Beyond the federal charges he faces connected to the documents, he also faces New York state charges related to falsifying business records in connection to hush-money payments made to a porn star. Trump is the first current or former president in US history to face criminal charges. Trump's lawyers pitched their request to Judge Cannon as a plea for cautious deliberation and as a means of safeguarding democracy.

Judge Cannon, appearing to adopt the brisk calendar mandated by the Speedy Trial Act, had initially scheduled the case to go to trial in August, reported The New York Times. The filing came in response to one submitted last month by prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, who requested a trial date of December 11. While timing is important in any criminal matter, it could be hugely consequential in Trump's case, in which he stands accused of illegally holding on to 31 classified documents after leaving the White House and obstructing the government's repeated efforts to reclaim them. If granted, it could push Trump's trial into the final stages of the presidential campaign in which he is now the Republican front-runner or even past the 2024 election. The former president's legal team, on Monday, argued in a court filing that no trial date should be set until all 'substantive motions' in the case were resolved, setting up an early key decision by Judge Aileen M. Washington DC, July 12 (ANI): The legal team of United States' former President Donald Trump has asked the federal judge to postpone his trial on charges of illegally retaining classified documents after he left office, said that the proceeding should not begin until all'substantive motions' in the case were resolved, The New York Times reported.

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