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The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump ’s criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election agreed to pause all proceedings in the prosecution on Friday, as special counsel prosecutors prepared to shut down the case following Trump’s election victory.

In a brief, one-page filing , prosecutors asked the presiding US district judge, Tanya Chutkan, to “vacate the remaining deadlines in the pretrial schedule to afford the government time to assess this unprecedented circumstance and determine the appropriate course going forward”.

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