A US judge has formally postponed Donald Trump’s trial on federal charges that the former president sought to overturn the 2020 election results.
The trial was due to start on 4 March in Washington before the delay ordered from the federal judge Tanya Chutkan.
Trial delays in general are not unusual in court cases. The delay in Trump’s trial in particular stems from an appeal by the ex-president that claims he is immune to prosecution for actions taken while he was in the Oval Office.
Chutkan had indicated in January that Trump’s original trial date – chosen last summer – would not hold because the case had been frozen by the former president’s appeal.