Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump suffered a legal setback Tuesday as a federal judge gave U.S. prosecutors permission to file an "oversized" brief justifying the superseding indictment in Trump's election interference case.

"The length and breadth of the Government's proposed brief reflects the uniquely 'challenging' and factbound nature of those determinations," U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan wrote in her opinion approving Special Counsel Jack Smith's motion and denying Trump's request for a pretrial briefing schedule change.