Once on hold, federal proceedings against Donald Trump in Washington for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election have resumed, with a hearing scheduled for mid-August.
Judge Tanya Chutkan regained control of the case and unveiled a schedule Saturday for the next procedural steps, including a hearing on August 16 at 10 a.m. in a courtroom in the American capital.
This progress does not, however, guarantee that a criminal trial will be held before the November election in which the former Republican president is a candidate.
Donald Trump, the subject of four criminal cases and convicted in one of them in New York for falsifying accounting documents, is pulling out all the stops to be tried as late as possible.
The proceedings against the former president in Washington, while he was due to be tried from March, had been postponed and then put on hold pending a decision by the Supreme Court on his presidential immunity.
In early July, the highest US court ruled that a president enjoys “no immunity for his unofficial acts” but is “entitled at least to a presumption of immunity for his official acts” – a decision that reshuffled the cards.
The case then went to Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington to determine which of Mr. Trump’s actions are potentially immune from criminal prosecution, a complex decision expected to take several months.
Donald Trump is being prosecuted in this case for unlawful attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden. He is charged in particular with “conspiracy against American institutions” and “violating the right to vote” of voters.
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