A federal judge has rejected an effort by former President Donald Trump to pause several civil lawsuits filed against him seeking to hold him accountable for his actions leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, according to a newly posted ruling.
Trump had asked D.C. District Judge Amit Mehta to stay proceedings in the lawsuits — brought by several members of Congress and police officers who protected the Capitol on January 6 — while his federal criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith was ongoing.
Trump’s attorneys reasoned that defending himself from the lawsuits could improperly impact his defense strategy in his criminal case, which Mehta rejected in his ruling.
Meanwhile, Twelve jurors and one alternate have been seated in the historic criminal trial of former President Donald Trump.
After a setback Thursday morning resulting in the dismissal of two jurors who had been seated on Tuesday, lawyers for both sides quickly exhausted their strikes and landed on a jury of seven men and five women to sit in judgment of the former president.
Jury selection was scheduled to resume on Friday to find the remaining five alternate jurors for the case.
Source-ABC
