Feds fight Trump’s effort to hold off Jan. 6 Trial till after the Election….

“This small and skewed sample provides no help to the Court in deciding an appropriate trial date,” Gaston wrote in the six-page filing, adding, “The question here is when it is appropriate to start trial in this case, and statistics regarding the length of time from indictment to sentencing in other … cases have no bearing on that decision.”

The special counsel’s team also questioned Trump’s claim that the judge in his case, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, had allowed significantly longer pretrial periods in cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol than prosecutors were seeking for Trump. Prosecutors noted that some were prolonged as a result of plea negotiations and superseding indictments that added new layers of complexity.

Smith has proposed starting Trump’s trial on Jan. 2, 2024, itself an extraordinarily short and ambitious timeline, given the challenge of bringing a former president to trial. He has argued that the public interest in this case is served by a speedy trial and that he has taken steps to organize evidence for Trump in a way that should facilitate a faster process….

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