前总统唐纳德·特朗普的法律团队要求法官监督他的联邦2020年选举干预案将他的审判安排在2026年4月，也就是两年半以后。
相比之下，特别顾问杰克·史密斯上周要求华盛顿地区法官塔尼娅·楚特坎(Tanya Chutkan)将川普的审判安排在今年一月辩称这将“证明公众对快速审判的强烈兴趣”。
“在这个地区，面对如此巨大的发现时，普通的秩序是制定一个合理的审判时间表，与发现的规模和范围以及法律问题的复杂性相称，”特朗普的律师在周四的文件中说。
“政府拒绝这种明智的做法。相反，它寻求一个比大多数无文件轻罪更快的审判日历，从发现开始到选择陪审团只需要四个月，”他们在文件中说。“政府的目标很明确:剥夺特朗普总统及其律师为审判做准备的公平能力。”
Chutkan将在8月28日的情况会议上听取双方的观点。
特朗普本月早些时候不服罪联邦指控通过招募一系列所谓的“假选举人”，利用司法部进行“虚假选举犯罪调查”，试图招募副总统“改变选举结果”，并在1月6日暴乱肆虐时宣传选举被盗的虚假说法，以推翻2020年选举的结果——所有这些都是为了颠覆民主，继续掌权。
这位前总统否认所有不当行为，并谴责这些指控是“对政治对手的迫害”。
在这张2021年1月6日的档案照片中，唐纳德·特朗普总统来到华盛顿特区白宫附近的椭圆形办公室向支持者发表讲话
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特朗普周四提交的文件列出了一系列日期，跨越近三年的时间，他们指出，这“相当于政府花在调查”1月6日袭击美国国会大厦事件上的时间。
为了说明本案中争议的大量发现的规模，他们在文件中表示，在收到政府第一份大约1150万页的证据后，他们开始尝试下载文件，但“两天后，它仍在下载。”
他们估计，如果他们从今天开始审查这些文件，“我们需要以每天99，762页的速度进行，才能在陪审团选择的拟议日期前完成政府的初步制作。”
特朗普的律师写道，“这是托尔斯泰的《战争与和平》的全部内容，从头到尾，每天78次，每天，从现在到陪审团选择为止。”
他们甚至提供了一张图表，声称显示了一堆1150万页高的纸与自由女神像和华盛顿纪念碑的高度相比的差异——纸堆的大小大约是建筑物高度的10倍。
在寻求2026年的开始日期时，特朗普的律师还引用特朗普在未来几个月繁忙的法律日程作为推迟安排他的审判的理由，包括特别律师的审判机密文件案子，富尔顿县的达普选举干预佐治亚州的案子，还有曼哈顿的地方检察官堵嘴的贿赂凯斯。
特朗普对所有指控都不认罪，并以政治动机为由驳回了调查。
Trump asks judge to schedule his federal election interference trial for 2026
Former President Donald Trump's legal team has requested that the judge overseeing his federal 2020election interference caseschedule his trial for April of 2026 -- more than two and a half years from now.
In contrast, special counsel Jack Smith last week requested D.C. district judge Tanya Chutkan schedule Trump's trial forthis coming January, arguing it would "vindicate the public's strong interest" in a speedy trial.
"In this District, ordinary order when faced with such overwhelming discovery is to set a reasonable trial schedule, commensurate with the size and scope of discovery and complexity of the legal issues," Trump's attorneys argued in their filing Thursday.
"The government rejects this sensible approach. Instead, it seeks a trial calendar more rapid than most no-document misdemeanors, requesting just four months from the beginning of discovery to jury selection," they said in the filing. "The government's objective is clear: to deny President Trump and his counsel a fair ability to prepare for trial."
Chutkan will hear arguments from both sides at a status conference on Aug. 28.
Trump earlier this monthpleaded not guiltyto federal charges of undertaking a "criminal scheme" to overturn the results of the 2020 election by enlisting a slate of so-called "fake electors," using the Justice Department to conduct "sham election crime investigations," trying to enlist the vice president to "alter the election results," and promoting false claims of a stolen election as the Jan. 6 riot raged -- all in an effort to subvert democracy and remain in power.
The former president has denied all wrongdoing and denounced the charges as "a persecution of a political opponent."
Trump's filing Thursday set forth a series of dates stretching over the nearly three-year period, which they noted is "equal to the government's time spent investigating" the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
To illustrate the size of the vast volume of discovery at issue in the case, they said in the filing that after receiving the government's first production of roughly 11.5 million pages of evidence, they began trying to download the files -- but "two days later, it was still downloading."
They estimate that if they began reviewing the documents as of today, "we would need to proceed at a pace of 99,762 pages per day to finish the government's initial production by its proposed date for jury selection."
"That is the entirety of Tolstoy's War and Peace, cover to cover, 78 times a day, every day, from now until jury selection," Trump's lawyers wrote.
They even provided a graphic that they claimed shows the difference between a stack of papers 11.5 million pages high, compared to the heights of the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument -- with the size of the paper stack roughly ten times the height of the structures.
In seeking the 2026 start date, Trump's attorneys also cite Trump's busy legal calendar in the coming months as reason to delay scheduling his trial, including the special counsel'sclassified documentscase, the Fulton County DA'selection interferencecase in Georgia, and the Manhattan DA'shush moneycase.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges that have been brought, and has dismissed the probes as politically motivated.
