Trump loses first bid to throw out Mar-a-Lago charges as hush money case faces shock delay: Live

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has asked the judge overseeing the hush-money case against Donald Trump for a 30-day delay in the trial – just 11 days before jury selection was to begin.

On Thursday, Mr Bragg asked Judge Juan Merchan to push back the trial so prosecutors could review approximately 31,000 pages of additional records submitted on Wednesday.

“Based on our initial review of yesterday’s production, those records appear to contain materials related to the subject matter of this case, including materials that the People requested from the USAO more than a year ago and that the USAO previously declined to provide,” Mr Bragg wrote.

Meanwhile, theformer president was at court in Fort Pierce, Florida today fighting to have the criminal case into his alleged mishandling of classified documents thrown out.

Judge Aileen Cannon appeared sceptical about the defence arguments suggesting they were more appropriate questions for a jury. She promised to rule promptlyand did so in one motion.

In other legal news, Mr Trump scored a minor win in his Georgia election interference case when Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee threw out a handful of charges from the original indictment.

A Florida district judge assigned to oversee Donald Trump’s classified documents case is attracting criticism given that it was Mr Trump himself who elevated her to the bench.

Aileen Cannon is the federal judge with the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida overseeing the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice case against Mr Trump, who’s charged with the illegal possession of classified documents at his Florida estate after leaving the White House in January 2021 and for impeding efforts by the US government to reclaim