By the top of Monday, one other piece could possibly be put in place within the difficult jigsaw puzzle of the 4 felony instances going through former President Donald J. Trump: A date could possibly be chosen for Mr. Trump’s federal trial on costs of searching for to overturn the 2020 election.

At a listening to scheduled for Monday morning in Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan is ready to contemplate — and will choose — the date of the trial.

In dueling court docket papers filed this month, the federal government and Mr. Trump’s attorneys every proposed formidable schedules for the trial, with prosecutors asking for the case to be put earlier than a jury as early as Jan. 2 and the protection requesting that or not it’s put off for more than two years, until April 2026. As Judge Chutkan considers the arguments, one other authorized continuing associated to Mr. Trump might be taking part in out on Monday in federal court docket in Atlanta, underscoring the complexity of bringing the costs towards him to trial.

Fani T. Willis, the district lawyer in Fulton County, Ga., just lately proposed beginning a trial in her case towards Mr. Trump, on costs of tampering with the 2020 election in that state, in March. But that date stays considerably unsure not solely due to the jockeying amongst prosecutors over the timing of the totally different instances, but additionally as a result of a few of Mr. Trump’s 18 co-defendants within the case have requested for the trial to start out as early as this fall whereas others need to sluggish issues down.

At the identical time Judge Chutkan takes the bench in Washington, a federal decide in Atlanta will maintain a listening to to find out if a type of co-defendants within the Georgia case, Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s closing White House chief of workers, can take away his costs from the state judicial system and have them heard in federal court docket.

Mr. Meadows has argued that he’s proof against the state costs as a result of the entire acts underlying the accusations towards him had been carried out as a part of his official duties as a federal official. But prosecutors working for Ms. Willis have countered that the costs relate to Mr. Meadows’s political actions throughout a re-election marketing campaign, which fall exterior of his formal authorities obligations.

Mr. Meadows was on the road in January 2021, when Mr. Trump positioned a name to Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, asking him to “find” enough votes for Mr. Trump to win the election there. Prosecutors issued a subpoena final week to have Mr. Raffensperger, amongst others, testify on the listening to in Atlanta.

In most authorized proceedings, the collection of a trial date is a largely mundane matter, relying on the variety of defendants, the quantity of proof, and the schedules of the decide, prosecutors and protection attorneys.

But the timetables for Mr. Trump’s 4 trials have taken on outsize significance. That shouldn’t be solely as a result of there are such a lot of of them, each needing a slot, but additionally as a result of they’re unfolding towards Mr. Trump’s crowded calendar because the candidate main the sector for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination.

As an additional complication, Mr. Trump has made no secret in non-public conversations along with his aides of his want to resolve his jumble of authorized issues by successful the election. If both of the 2 federal trials he’s confronting is delayed till after the race and Mr. Trump prevails, he might search to pardon himself after taking workplace or have his lawyer basic merely dismiss the issues altogether.

At Monday’s listening to in Washington on the federal election costs, Judge Chutkan has stated she additionally intends to debate a schedule for dealing with the small quantity of categorised materials that will emerge as proof within the case. If she finally agrees to the federal government’s request to start out the trial in January, it could be the primary of Mr. Trump’s 4 instances to be examined in a courtroom.

Prosecutors from the workplace of the particular counsel, Jack Smith, brought the case early this month, submitting an indictment towards Mr. Trump in Washington after months of intense investigation. The indictment costs the previous president with three overlapping conspiracies to defraud the United States, to hinder the certification of the election throughout a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, and to deprive individuals of the rights to have their votes counted.

Another certainly one of Mr. Trump’s trials, wherein he has been charged with 34 felonies related to hush cash funds to a porn star within the run-up to the 2016 election, is set to start in March in a state court in Manhattan. Another, wherein he stands accused of illegally retaining dozens of categorised paperwork after leaving workplace, is ready to go earlier than a jury in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., near the end of May.