Special counsel Jack Smith requested that the 2020 federal election interference case — and his appeal of the classified documents case ruling — against President-elect Donald Trump be dismissed, citing Trump's return to the White House next year.

In order to make sense of the often-overlapping election and court dates for Trump — the first former American president to be convicted of a crime — we've put together a comprehensive timeline that is being updated regularly:

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