The judge overseeing the case has not yet ruled on his request.
. The trial, currently scheduled to begin next May, would overlap with the final months of the GOP frontrunner's presidential campaign.In the court filing, Trump's lawyers cite the conflicting scheduling demands between the classified documents case and Special Counsel Jack Smith's separateTrump's lawyers said Smith's office "misled the Court this summer by contending that the unprecedented schedule it requested was workable," the filing stated.
In addition, Trump's lawyers argued prosecutors haven't turned over all the necessary evidence because they have not been able to review nine of the documents Trump has been charged with illegally retaining. Prosecutors recently made available a batch of materials that "nearly doubled the volume of classified discovery" without explaining why they had been withheld, Trump's lawyers added.
Prosecutors are also continuing to withhold "certain agents' communications" from discovery, they added.from Trump's lawyers this month that sought to delay the classified documents trial. The special counsel's office responded earlier this week to the initial filing, arguing that Trump's lawyers' "claims about their inability to review classified information are distorted and exaggerated." There is "no reason" to change the trial date, they added.Trump has been charged with 40 counts stemming from the probe into his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left the White House.
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