STORY: Donald Trump's trial in Florida on charges of illegally keeping classified documents after leaving office has been indefinitely postponed.
The judge's Tuesday decision greatly reduces Trump's odds of facing a jury in either of the two federal criminal cases against him before the November election.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 40 federal counts accusing him of retaining sensitive national security documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after leaving office in 2021, and obstructing U.S. government efforts to retrieve them.
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The former U.S. president was previously set to go to trial on May 20.
But the prosecution and defense had both acknowledged that date would need to be delayed.
The judge did not set a new date for the trial, but scheduled pre-trial hearings to run through July 22.
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Trump is seeking to regain the presidency in November's presidential election in a rematch with Joe Biden.
He has sought to portray all the legal cases against him as politically motivated, and his lawyers have worked to delay all four criminal cases he faces until after the vote.
In an April Reuters/Ipsos poll, nearly a quarter of Republican respondents and more than half of independents indicated they would not vote for Trump if a jury convicts him of a felony.
