Judge #Chutkan will require Trump to disclose by Jan. 15 whether he intends to use an "advice of counsel" defense in his Washington, D.C. trial — and to provide relevant documentation of that defense at the same time.
Trump files late-night brief in support of media coalition motion for video & audio access to #USAvsTRUMP trial, saying that he "absolutely agrees, and in fact demands" that proceedings be televised, to ensure that public learns about election that was "rigged and stolen [sic]."
Cue the circus music 🤡
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24161013/trumpdctrialtvflg111023.pdf
Federal Judge rejects TFG bid to strike #jan6th Violence from #USAvsTRUMP trial.
#Chutkan's opinion criticized Trump's legal team for filing a motion "making numerous inflammatory and unsupported accusations of its own" about Special Counsel Jack Smith's indictment
Judge #Chutkan has *denied* Trump's motion to dismiss his criminal charges based on a claim of "presidential immunity.
"Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens."
"No man in this country, not even the former President, is so high that he is above the law"