"Kick starting the legal maneuvering, Chutkan set an Aug. 16 hearing in Washington, D.C., to consider the schedule for Trump's felony criminal case.
She also ordered both Trump's lawyers and Smith's Justice Department team to propose a schedule for moving forward by Friday."
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"While Trump has scored some recent big legal wins, the former president is hardly out of criminal trouble.
He's scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 18 in New York after a jury convicted him of falsifying business records in order to hide reimbursements to his former lawyer, who made hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
The judge in the case postponed an earlier sentencing date while he considers Trump's request to toss out the entire case based on the Supreme Court's immunity ruling.
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"Trump also faces felony charges in two other criminal cases that have not yet been scheduled.
One in Florida over Trump's refusal to return classified documents once he left office has been dismissed, but the special counsel has appealed the decision. T
he other, a wide-ranging election racketeering case in Fulton County, Georgia, charges Trump and several co-conspirators with attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.
The Republican's 2024 presidential nominee has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges."
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