Lawyers for Donald Trump filed his latest attempt to delay his trial on charges stemming from his attempt to undermine the Constitution and destroying the peaceful transfer of power: Trump attempts to waive his right to a speedy trial under the aptly named “Speedy Trial Act.”
“Here, the sheer number of witnesses and volume of discovery alone warrants a continuance, to say nothing about the issues of first impression that the parties will inevitably have to brief,” the lawyers assert. “For a case of this magnitude, it would be impossible for the defense to evaluate the government’s evidence, prepare its own defense, and participate in pretrial proceedings, all within the time constraints of the Speedy Trial Act. Accordingly, the ends of justice would be served by the exclusion of the 25-day period from the Speedy Trial Act calculation.”
Included in the motion is an initial response from Jack Smith’s office to the request: “The Government’s position is that the ends of justice are best served by a speedy trial.”