In case you ever had an inkling of a germ of a doubt...🤬
Via Joyce Vance:
In the Mar-a-Lago case, Judge #Cannon has just refused to enforce a routine deadline & it's entirely clear she has no intention of letting this case go to trial before the election or possibly ever. #TrumpIndictment#Documents#legal
As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal
🤦🏻♀️”#Trump’s legal team is asking govt to reestab a secure facility at Mar-a-Lago so he can review classified discovery in #documents case.
..comes after he requested to review evidence at his #Florida home, prosecutors dismissed as “extraordinary” given it=very location where he’s charged w improperly handling some of most closely guarded secrets” #legal 1/...
New: As Judge #Cannon made debut at hearing in classif #documents case she appeared disinclined to grant #JackSmith request for Dec trial date but also seemed skeptical of #Trump/#Nauta bid to delay til after 2024 elec.
~2 hour hearing, Cannon peppered both defense & prosecutors w Qs abt anticip discovery & motion practice timeline.
But put off setting trial date indic instead she will enter written order “soon” #TrumpIndictment
“#Trump is expected to be in attendance Monday in #Florida when Judge Aileen #Cannon presides over a hearing in his classified #documents case in which attorneys will address issues surrounding the classified materials in question.
The hearings will be under seal & held in a SCIF -- a specially-equipped secure room for viewing highly classified materials -- located in Fort Pierce, Florida” #legal#TrumpIndictment
“A plumber, a maid, a chauffeur and a woodworker are among Mar-a-Lago staffers and contract workers who federal prosecutors may call to testify against #Trump and his two co-defendants at their upcoming criminal trial in #Florida” #documents#legal#TrumpIndictment
Hey Cannon? Recuse yourself. And I use "recuse" as a euphemism.
Via Kyle Cheney:
Judge #CANNON has denied DOJ's motion to set some key pretrial deadlines in December, saying she will not consider scheduling adjustments until March 1.
BREAKING: #JackSmith's team tells Judge #Cannon that a key witness in #Trump's Mar-a-Lago #documents case retracted false testimony after switching lawyers.
MORE: The new filing from Smith indicates that the D.C. grand jury investigating the documents case wrapped up its work last week.#legal
JUST IN: Judge #CANNON has denied #JackSmith's gag order request in FL, saying prosecutors' failure to confer with defense before filing it was "wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy." #TrumpIndictment#documents#legal
Judge #Cannon is giving #Trump's legal team and the government 12 days to tell her how the SCOTUS decision upholding the CFPB's funding/appointment impacts Trump's claim that #JackSmith was unlawfully appointed and funded...
Thread from Mueller She Wrote. Intro by Brandon Van Grack: 1/...
The filing provides further confirmation that some of the classified #documents are incredibly sensitive. Some docs require special equipmt to allow for the discussion of the docs. Cant think of another mishandling/leak/espionage case involving the disclosure and use of such docs.
#DOJ is fighting an effort from #Trump’s legal team to reestablish a secure facility in Mar-a-Lago, arguing he would be “the only defendant ever” in a classified #documents case to review evidence in their home.
“Creating a secure location in Trump’s residence — which is also a social club — so he can discuss classified information would be an unnecessary and unjustified accommodation that deviates from the normal course of cases involving classified discovery” #legal
Undocketed filings in US v #Trump (M-a-L) are stacking up. Yesterday the govt sought permission to file a surreply relating to a reply that isn't docketed yet, which related to a response that isn't docketed yet, which related to a motion that isn't docketed yet. #legal#documents
“Quick update on tense dispute between Judge #Cannon & govt in USA v #Trump (MaL): ln trying to persuade Cannon to reconsider her order last week to unseal identities of >24 “participants” in probe, including some witnesses & their statements ...” #legal#TrumpIndictment#documents
🤦🏻♀️ #Trump’s lawyers have filed several motions to dismiss the classified #documents case in #Florida, citing, among other things, presidential immunity and arguing special counsel #JackSmith was unlawfully appointed. #legal
“#Trump assistant told fed investigators Trump repeatedly wrote to-do lists for her on #documents from WH marked classified…Molly Michael, told investigators that -- more than once --she received requests or taskings from Trump that were written on back of notecards, she later recog those notecards as sensitive WH materials -- w visible classific markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls with foreign leaders…” #legal https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-wrote-lists-assistant-white-house-documents-marked/story?id=103226113
JUST IN: Judge #Cannon has signed an order to govern the handling of classified info in the Trump #documents case.
It's the product of a sealed hearing she led yesterday and includes explicit restrictions on what #Trump can do with classified info.
The standard language governing classified info in the Trump documents case is also surprisingly close to the government's actual case against Trump #legal
“In an open display of frustration, federal prosecutors on Tuesday night told the judge overseeing #Trump’s classified #documents case that a “fundamentally flawed” order she had issued was causing delays & asked her to quickly resolve a critical dispute about 1 of Trump’s defenses — leaving them time to appeal if needed.
The unusual & risky move by the prosecutors, contained in a 24-pg filing, signaled their mounting impatience w Judge #Cannon” #legal
NEWS - #JackSmith questioned witnesses about 2 rms FBI didn't search at Mar-a-Lago —1 was “hidden room” inside #Trump’s bedrm. The other, a locked closet w a curiously timed lock change inside his residence