Lawyers for former President Donald Trump, some of whom were directly affected after Hurricane Milton made landfall earlier this month, asked a federal judge to delay deadlines in the former president’s Jan. 6 criminal case.
Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and John Lauro asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Monday, just one week before Election Day, whether she would be willing to push back three key deadlines in special counsel Jack Smith’s four-count felony case. The case accuses Trump of knowingly attempting to subvert the results of the 2020 election and undo President Joe Biden‘s victory.
“Here, President Trump seeks brief continuances of his filing deadlines,” the attorneys wrote, noting the storm was responsible for “displacing and severely disrupting Florida defense counsel from both undersigned firms,” according to the four-page motion.
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