public wants to see the federal january 6th case go to trial before next november. i mean this is information that people want, in my opinion they deserve to know the outcome of this case before they potentially are being asked to send him back to the white house. but this is a tricky, tricky calendar with these other trials on the calendar, the political calendar overlapping. i sympathize with judge chutkan here trying to navigate this complicated set of issues. yeah, how does a judge navigate that very difficult circumstance of the scheduling, et cetera? what goes into the judge s thinking when it comes to setting a trial date? well, in this case from what the reporting is, donald trump s attorneys are not budging from that april 2026 date, and it is an absurd date, and to not budge from it, you just basically lose all credibility with the judge. so she s giving them opportunity, they re not budging. she s going to make the decision herself. i agree with her that january
staff duty, that is violation of the hatch act which prohibits partisan political activity on behalf of white house staff. it s going to be a very interesting day. chris, what is meadows best argument for removing his case from state court and sending it over to federal court? well, he needs to establish that the conduct that s at issue in the case concerns his official government job duties, and this san area of the law that s pretty untested, so it s very hard to predict how it will be resolved at the en of the day. it seems like a tenuous argument at least intuitively. i imagine one of the questions he ll be asked on cross examination and i share catherine s fascination with the fact that he s testifying really will be, you know, however other than the call to raffensperger call that we all heard did he have cause to do any kind of work with the georgia secretary of state as chief of staff? to most of us that seems out of
motions that he s going to file that are designed to delay and bog down this process and make legal arguments for why this case shouldn t go forward. he s going to claim donald trump is covered by presidential immunity and therefore didn t commit any crimes. that s going to have to be litigated before this judge. there s some talk right now about whether as i m reading the notes here about whether donald trump can get a fair trial in d.c. no doubt his lawyers are going to push for a change in venue. there s a lot of ancillary stuff that still has to happen apologies for the ambulance coming by here, and so it s possible that this date will slide a bit because there s going to be a lot of litigation in this case. but what this shows is that judge tanya chutkan wants to move this case along. we ve sort of known that about her, but she made it starkly clear. she had no patience for the trump team s unwillingness to move off their april 2026 position. she kept asking them, look, apri