Trump’s calendar seems pretty open to me. I’m sure it will be fine.
Are you factoring in Executive Time?
You know how I like to say that no matter what you think Trump has done, it is actually worse?
CNN just posted a story about another binder full of classified intel (including sources and methods) that went missing just before the end of the Trump administration:
Is it pure fantasy to hope for a superseding indictment that will scoop the other documents case away from Trump’s pet judge down in Florida?
Probably. At this point I believe we’re really down to crossing our fingers that Trump is not the next president. Otherwise, all we’ll hear is the screeching brakes on the Trump controlled DOJ.
And we’re just learning about this now?
“Other” documents case?
This thread isn’t about a documents case, this is about the 1/6 insurrection prosecution of Trump.
Unless you mean the false electors signing documents but that has nothing to do with Trump mishandling sensitive documents. Still the wrong case.
It was a complex matter that took the full week.
My co-counsel on the file had to file a brief on December 23, dealing with another issue.
No possibility of an extension, given the schedule the Court drew up.
Oy! That’s rough. My sympathies.
I believe what you say. But in my experience, it is much more common for lawyers to wait until the absolute last minute to act, and then request additional time, rather than prepare well in advance. To some extent, if they have a lot of business, that just reflects that they are working hard and last-minuting everything they do, rather than just wasting time. I think such habits are encouraged by law schol where - in the US - in most classes 100% of your grade depends on the final exam.
In my area of practice, hearings are noticed up 75 days in advance. There is no effective was to close the record before the hearing. There is an entirely toothless provision stating that an attorney ought to produce OR identify all relevant evidence 5 days before the hearing. Some of the most active attys file 5-day letters in just about every case. Hell, it is not at all uncommon in the week before a hearing for attys to request that a hearing be rescheduled because they have not been able to contact their client. They requested a hearing, were notified of a hearing being scheduled (which involves some effort and expense), yet they never even checked to see if they would be able to produce their damned client?
But, our Agency writes the stupid rules, and the attys are only doing what they can get away with.
It wasn’t like I wanted to be in the office on December 24! I do have some work-planning ability. 
That case was taking up all my time.
Hopefully your client(s) didn’t try to micromanage your work.
I once had a trial that started about a week before Christmas. We took Christmas off, of course, but were back in session in the week between Christmas and New Years. I don’t recall if 12/24 landed on a court date or not.
Our courts shut down early on Christmas Eve. Christmas is a holiday, of course, and so is Boxing Day. That means we normally get between 2½ and 4½ days off, Christmas week.
This year it’s 4½ :
- Christmas Eve observed on Friday, Dec 22, so all gov’t offices and courts close early (with skeleton staff for emergencies until 5 pm), law firms can choose to close early;
- Saturday & Sunday normal non-business days;
- Christmas Monday Dec 25
- Boxing Day Tuesday Dec 26 off; courts re-open Wednesday Dec 17.
So you Canadian bastards have time machines and aren’t sharing this technology with us? I knew it!
No, they are closed starting December 26 and open again on December 17 next year.
They get a lot of time off.
If I was cleverer this would be an excellent place for a Doctor Who joke.
I think I’ll link to this over in the Fulton County, GA/Fani Willis thread, too, but … looks like more evidence of Trump’s direct involvement in the election interference conspiracy:
That article is from 2022.
Thanks for catching that.
Somebody commented, on a current article, about (Nevada State GOP Chairman Michael) McDonald having directly implicated Trump in testimony. I hadn’t remembered that happening.
A Google search brought up the article.