In the first court hearing in nearly a year, a lawyer for Donald Trump clashed on Thursday with the judge in the federal election interference prosecution of the former president after suggesting the government was rushing forward with an “illegitimate” indictment at the height of the White House campaign.

A federal judge is holding a hearing in Washington, DC, to consider how to proceed with special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case against Donald Trump. Follow for live news updates.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are clashing in a Washington courtroom over the next steps in the federal election interference prosecution of Donald Trump.

NBC News' Ken Dilanian and Lisa Rubin report on the developments in a hearing for the election interference case against former President Trump and why the judge overseeing the case has not set a new trial date yet.

After months of delays, a federal judge is set to hold a hearing Thursday that could determine the trajectory of former President Trump's election interference case.

A lawyer for Donald Trump clashed on Thursday with the judge in the federal election interference prosecution of the former president after suggesting the government was rushing forward with an “illegitimate” indictment at the height of the White House campaign.

A lawyer for Donald Trump has clashed with the judge in the federal election interference prosecution of the former president after suggesting the government was rushing forward with an “illegitimate”

Prosecutors and defense lawyers are clashing in a Washington courtroom over the next steps in the federal election interference prosecution of Donald Trump. Thursday's hearing is the first since the

Lawyers for Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith will be before Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday, the first hearing in the federal election subversion case since prosecutors revised their indictment to try to bring their case in line with a Supreme Court ruling extending to Trump some presidential immunity in the prosecution.

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is charged with illegally trying to undo his loss in the 2020 election to President Joe Biden

No date has yet been set for former President Donald Trump's federal 2020 election interference trial as Jack Smith's office seeks to streamline appeals.