<p>The judge presiding over special counsel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jack-smith">Jack Smith</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2020-election">2020 election</a> case against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> rejected a request by the former president&#8217;s lawyers to delay a hearing on a protective order proposal.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-in-trump-election-case-worked-at-same-law-firm-as-hunter-biden">U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan</a>, who is based in Washington, D.C., issued an order on Tuesday scheduling the hearing to take place on Friday at 10 a.m. ET and waiving the requirement of the defendant&#8217;s appearance.</p>
<p>The order made its way to the docket a couple hours after Smith&#8217;s and Trump&#8217;s teams sent a <a href="https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1688983033716621314">joint filing</a> in response to Chutkan&#8217;s demand that they settle on two dates and times for when they would be available to appear for a hearing by the end of the week.</p>
<p>While Smith&#8217;s team said the government is available &#8220;any time&#8221; Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, Trump&#8217;s legal team asked that the hearing be pushed back until next week because of scheduling issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;President Trump will not appear. However, he would like to have both his counsel John Lauro and Todd Blanche at the hearing,&#8221; their response said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Todd Blanche is not available on Thursday, since he must appear for a court proceeding in the protection brought against the same defendant, President Donald, by the Special Counsel in [the Southern District of] Florida,&#8221; they added. &#8220;Mr. Lauro is available on Thursday, with a preference for an afternoon setting. However, since we lost Friday as an option, we would respectfully request a setting on Monday (after 12:00 p.m.) or Tuesday (all day) to allow for both Mr. Blanche and Mr. Lauro to be present.&#8221;</p>
<p>The joint filing did not explain the assertion that Friday had been &#8220;lost&#8221; as an option. The Daily Wire reached out to Trump&#8217;s lawyers seeking comment on the judge&#8217;s order on Tuesday.</p>
<p>Last week, Smith&#8217;s team filed a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/663186345/Motion-for-Order-of-Protection-Trump-Trial">request</a> for a <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/663186343/Proposed-Text-Order-of-Protection-Trump-Trial#fullscreen&amp;from_embed">protective order</a> — one day after Trump&#8217;s arraignment in Washington, D.C. — following the former president posting to Truth Social in all capital letters, &#8220;If you go after me, I’m coming after you!&#8221;</p>
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<p>Noting that want to provide the defense with discovery materials &#8220;as soon as possible,&#8221; prosecutors said they wanted a variety of restrictions aimed at preventing the disclosure of sensitive evidence and warned that Trump publicly revealing certain information could &#8220;have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump&#8217;s lawyers <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23901780/trumporder.pdf">filed</a> their response to Smith&#8217;s proposed order just before the deadline at 5 p.m. ET after Chutkan denied their request for an extension over the weekend. The defense <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-responds-to-special-counsels-request-for-protective-order">asked</a> for a narrower protective order while raising concerns about Trump&#8217;s First Amendment rights being unduly constrained. In addition, they asked for a hearing on the matter &#8220;at the earliest convenient date.&#8221;</p>
<p>After Smith&#8217;s team <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jack-smith-rebuffs-trump-bid-for-narrower-protected-order-judge-responds">rebuffed</a> the counter-proposal by Trump&#8217;s lawyers, Chutkan made the ruling on Monday night that ordered both sides to work out possible hearing dates and times.</p>
<p>Trump, who is running a 2024 campaign for another term in the White House, has pleaded not guilty to charges over an alleged effort to overturn the results of the last presidential contest. In a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110855955597576833">post to Truth Social</a> on Tuesday, Trump raised conflict of interest concerns regarding Chutkan, noting her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-in-trump-election-case-worked-at-same-law-firm-as-hunter-biden">past work</a> at a law firm that also had employed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden">Hunter Biden</a>, the son of President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>.</p>
<p>The former president has broadly denied any wrongdoing while claiming he is the target of a &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; as he faces multiple criminal indictments on both the federal and state levels — including charges in another, documents-related case brought by Smith. In June, a judge <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-grants-doj-protective-order-bars-trump-disclosing-alleged-evidence-classified-documents-case">granted</a> a protective order that restrained Trump from disclosing evidence in the documents case.</p>

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