Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after surrendering on the Fulton County jail in Atlanta, Georgia, Aug. 24, 2023.
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Donald Trump can be arraigned Sept. 6 within the criminal case where he’s accused of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia, a state court docket showed Monday morning.
The opposite 18 defendants within the case can be arraigned later that very same day in in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta.
The scheduling order was released shortly before a federal judge in Washington, D.C., scheduled Trump’s trial there on charges related to attempting to reverse his 2020 national election loss to start on March 4.
Trump’s arraignment in Atlanta will happen at 9:30 a.m. ET. on Sept. 6 The previous president can be asked to enter a plea at the moment to the 13 felony charges he faces.
His former lawyer Rudy Giuliani can be arraigned at 9:45 a.m., the court docket shows.
The opposite 17 defendants within the case, who include Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, other Trump-allied lawyers, and would-be Electoral College voters for Trump, are scheduled to be arraigned starting at 10 a.m.
Steven Sadow, Trump’s attorney within the case, didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment in regards to the arraignment.
Trump and the opposite defendants were indicted two weeks ago by a grand jury in Fulton County on charges related to an alleged criminal enterprise that sought to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden in Georgia.
Trump and his lead campaign lawyer, Giuliani, had targeted Georgia and several other other swing states won by Biden in an effort to pressure state officials, legislators and judges to effectively reverse Trump’s losses in those states. The states provided Biden along with his margin of victory within the Electoral College, the entity that really determines winners in U.S. presidential elections.
All 19 defendants within the case surrendered in Atlanta last week to be booked. Eighteen of them were released on bonds of various amounts.
Just one in all them, Harrison Floyd, stays in Fulton County Jail after he was denied release.
Floyd is being kept in custody because, amongst other things, he didn’t reach a bond agreement with the district attorney’s office ahead of his give up.
