President Trump’s appointed judge Aileen Cannon has made it clear that she will not grant special counsel Jack Smith’s requests to set pretrial dates for the former president’s federal classified documents case. It is planned for the trial to start in May 2024.
According to ABC News, on Thursday, Smith made a desperate attempt to speed up the process of locating classified material that President Trump’s legal team plans to use in his defense. Unexpectedly, Judge Cannon had already turned down Smith’s plea before the president’s lawyers could raise their own objections.
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Judge Cannon’s decision is consistent with earlier rulings and raises the possibility of a postponement of President Trump’s trial—a request that the president’s attorneys have fervently supported. They contend that the goal of the prosecution is to have a well-publicized trial in an election year. Crucially, Judge Cannon has made it clear that politics will not affect her conclusions.
Smith may need more time than he had planned for the discovery process in this complicated case. Approximately 1.3 million pages of documents and thousands of hours of Mar-a-Lago video are intended to be presented by the prosecution. They contend that the president and his group obtained classified information from the White House in violation of the law. Smith has come under fire for refusing to give the evidence to President Trump’s lawyers and trying to keep it in Washington, D.C., which is more than 1,000 miles away from both Mar-a-Lago and the scene of the alleged crimes.
Judge Cannon declared on Thursday that she will hold a hearing in March 2024 to decide on future trial dates. This will give both parties more than four months to work out the details of the evidence sharing agreement.
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Federal prosecutor Smith is the one who has brought the first criminal charge against President Trump. 37 counts—including ones pertaining to the country’s nuclear weapons program—are included in the charges, which center on the improper handling of classified materials purportedly containing secrets related to national security. The President’s lawyers intend to subpoena FBI agents who ordered the shutdown of cameras during a raid at Mar-a-Lago, even though the President insists he is innocent. Legal experts think that because Smith used provocative language, some parts of his case might be rejected.
