US judge Tanya S. Chutkan, in charge of the process against the former president donald trump (2017-2021) for trying to annul the 2020 elections, decided this Monday that the trial date be March 4, 2024.

The magistrate, who will judge the case that culminated in the storming the capitol On January 6, 2021, he made the announcement after a hearing held in the US capital, the press reported.

He thus dismissed the wish of the special prosecutor, Jack Smith, that the trial start in January 2024, on a date close to the anniversary of the assault on the Capitol.

Also the interest of the former president’s defense to postpone the process until after the next presidential election, which will be held in November 2024 and in which Trump is still the favorite Republican candidate. They had requested that the trial begin in April 2026.

On the eve of ‘Super Tuesday’

The chosen date, March 4, is one day before super tuesdaythe closest thing in the United States to a national primary, since more than a dozen states, both Republican and Democratic will simultaneously hold internal processes to choose their candidates.

The former president is accused in Washington DC of four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. For the first of these charges, he could receive a maximum sentence of five years in prison, for the second and third twenty years in prison, respectively, and for the fourth, ten years.

The indictment describes that after lose the elections of November 3, 2020 Before Democrat Joe Biden, the then-president embarked on a conspiracy to “reverse the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election” with false allegations of voter fraud and multiple ploys.

This Monday’s announcement came a few minutes after it became known that the reading of charges against the former president and 18 other defendants in Georgia for attempt to reverse the 2020 election results in that state it will take place on September 6. All 19 will then have the opportunity to plead guilty or not guilty.

Trump has pleaded not guilty in the other three criminal cases in which he is also charged: for irregular payments to the porn actress stormy daniels to silence his “affair” in the past during the 2016 campaign, for illegally taking classified papers from the White House when he left power and for the assault on the Capitol. Trump went to Georgia last Thursday to be booked and have his mugshot taken.

He was in the Fulton County Jail for just 20 minutes and He was released on $200,000 bail.. The prosecutor in charge of the case, the Democrat Fani Willis, proposed that same day to the court that the trial start on October 23 and not on March 4 of next year, as she had originally proposed. The judge kept that date for only one of the defendants, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, who had requested a speedy trial, but no date is yet known for the rest.

The start of the process against Trump for irregular payments to the porn actress Stormy Daniels is set for March 25, 2024 in New York. The trial in Florida for the classified papers that he took from the White House to his mansion in Mar-a-Lago (Florida) is scheduled for May 20, 2024, when the presidential elections will be just over 6 months away.