WASHINGTON—District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an order on Sept. 5 outlining a series of deadlines for former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case.
Her order allows Special Counsel Jack Smith to release evidence in the case before the November election and seemed to favor his approach of concurrently various issues rather than a more incremental approach advanced by Trump’s attorneys.
Chutkan’s order was issued after a status conference earlier in the day in which she heard arguments from special counsel Jack Smith’s office and Trump’s attorney John Lauro on their views of how to proceed….