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Federal judge declines to push back Trump's classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines
Source: WTOP Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge in Florida declined for now to postpone former President Donald Trumps classified documents trial but did push back several pre-trial deadlines in the case.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smiths team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024.
The case includes dozens of felony charges accusing the Republican former president of illegally retaining classified documents at his Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, and hiding them from government investigators.
The decision from Cannon is notable given that she had signaled during a hearing this month that she was open to pushing back the trial date, pointing to the other trials Trump faces as well as the mounds of evidence that defense lawyers need to review. Trumps lawyers had complained about the burden of scouring more than 1 million pages of evidence that prosecutors have produced. Prosecutors had resisted any effort to delay, saying theyd already taken steps to make the evidence easier for the defense to review.
The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smiths team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024.
The case includes dozens of felony charges accusing the Republican former president of illegally retaining classified documents at his Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago, and hiding them from government investigators.
The decision from Cannon is notable given that she had signaled during a hearing this month that she was open to pushing back the trial date, pointing to the other trials Trump faces as well as the mounds of evidence that defense lawyers need to review. Trumps lawyers had complained about the burden of scouring more than 1 million pages of evidence that prosecutors have produced. Prosecutors had resisted any effort to delay, saying theyd already taken steps to make the evidence easier for the defense to review.
Read more: https://wtop.com/national/2023/11/federal-judge-declines-to-push-back-trumps-classified-documents-trial-but-postpones-other-deadlines/
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Federal judge declines to push back Trump's classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines (Original Post)
brooklynite
Nov 2023
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I guess Cannon doesn't care how many of our classified info was compromised
SouthernDem4ever
Nov 2023
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getagrip_already
(14,935 posts)1. Yeah, right...
There is ZERO chance that date will hold given the pretrial dates. She is just keeping it for now so ga doesn't grab it.
She is so corrupt it is obvious.
republianmushroom
(13,824 posts)2. Guess they really were not "Deadlines", now were they ?
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)3. I guess Cannon doesn't care how many of our classified info was compromised
and how much is left that still can be compromised.