The Atlanta prosecutor, who this week received an indictment against former President Trump and 18 others, wants to bring the case to court in March.

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Fani Willis said in a proposed planning order filed with the court on Wednesday that she wants the trial to begin

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That would mean the process begins a day before Super Tuesday, when most of the delegates are at stake in the primary to determine the next Republican presidential nominee. There will be about 14 primaries across the country from California and Texas to Massachusetts and Maine. Trump is currently the dominant leader of his party.

Trump and 18 others were indicted Monday by a grand jury in Fulton County. They are accused of committing several crimes as part of a plan to keep Trump in power after his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Willis also suggests that the appointments for the defendants take place during the week of September 5. She had already set a deadline of August 25 at noon for all defendants to turn themselves in to the Fulton County Jail to be booked. That seems to indicate that Trump and the others could make two trips to Georgia in the coming weeks, first to surrender and later to make a settlement.

Trump’s Georgia-based legal team did not immediately respond to a text requesting comment.

The relatively tight calendar proposed by Willis could be complicated by pre-trial maneuvers by the defendants. As early as Tuesday, lawyers for former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows filed a motion to move the case from state to federal court. They said all the actions he took were in service of his role in the White House, foreshadowing an argument that the constitution makes him immune from prosecution.

There is widespread speculation that Trump and perhaps others could also try to take the case to federal court.

The proposed order also suggests other deadlines for the case, including for discovery and motions. Willis’s filing says she chose the dates in light of Defendant Donald Trump’s other criminal and civil cases pending in the courts of our sister sovereigns, and said that this time frame would not conflict with the already scheduled hearings and trial dates of those other courts.

Trump is already scheduled to go on trial in March in the separate New York case involving dozens of state indictments alleging falsification of business records related to an alleged hush money payment to a porn actor. He is scheduled to go on trial in May in the federal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith alleging he illegally hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate and threatened government efforts to return them.

And Smith’s team is seeking a Jan. 2 lawsuit in the federal case over Trump’s attempts to overturn the election.

The expansive indictment of Georgia, which is nearly 100 pages long, uses the state’s racketeering law to accuse Trump and others of participating in a conspiracy, and details dozens of actions they allegedly took in an attempt to keep him in power.