Judge Chutkan Scolds Trump Lawyers in New Order

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5. They filed later Thursday night, a few hours after the original deadline

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Did you read the part where Smith didn’t oppose extending the deadline a few hours?

Court deadlines are not “the law”, they are the discretion of the judge.

This is no big deal.

The big deal is next week on September 26, IIRC, when Smith is due to submit his reply to last night’s filing, which could include details on the evidence that would be included in Trump’s trial (possibly submitted under seal, so the public might not get to see it, or some of it, right away. Chutkan would then need to rule on which evidence is inadmissible due to the immunity ruling (which I would expect Smith would already have excluded most of). Then Trump gets to appeal to SCOTUS for their final ruling- but hopefully a significant portion of that evidence will be available to the American people before election day.