Timeline: Key legal and electoral dates for Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before entering the courtroom at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York. (Julia Nikhinson/Pool via AP) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Senior Editor

Wed, May 15, 2024, 2:30 p.m.·1 min read

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday tentatively agreed to two election debates: the first one on June 27 in Atlanta, hosted by CNN, and the second one on Sept. 10 hosted by ABC News.

According to USA Today, Biden's campaign "informed the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has hosted the matches since 1988, that it would not be participating in its series of three debates scheduled for the fall."

Meanwhile, Trump — the GOP’s presumptive nominee for president — faces four criminal cases altogether. He is the first former U.S. president to be indicted and criminally charged.

In order to make sense of the often-overlapping election and court dates, we’ve put together a comprehensive timeline that is constantly being updated:

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Cover thumbnail photo: Mary Altaffer/Pool via AP

Ed HornickSenior Editor

Ed Hornick is a senior editor at Yahoo News focusing on data visualization, innovation and editorial planning. He also contributes to The Yodel newsletter. Ed has been with Yahoo since 2013, when he started as a homepage editor. Previously, he served as a political reporter and editor for CNN and HLN, covered local news for WABC-TV and KTTV-TV, wrote about elections for National Journal's "The Hotline" and Newsday, penned an advice column for the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin newspaper as a teenager and reported for the award-winning, nationally syndicated WBNG-TV show "Action News for Kids" when he was 12 years old.