The pretrial hearing is the first of five U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has scheduled over three days in Donald Trump’s classified documents prosecution.
Aileen M. Cannon testifies virtually during her nomination hearing to the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on July 29, 2020. FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Former president Donald Trump’s attorneys argued in federal court here Friday that the classified document case against him should be dismissed because the top prosecutor in the case was improperly appointed.
Trump’s attorney said at the hearing that there are differences in the legal arguments they were making vs. the rejected ones made in D.C. around the Mueller appointment.Subscribe to The Trump Trials newsletterThe pretrial hearing is the first of five Cannon has scheduled over three days. Multiple sessions are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, including one on whether Smith’s position is legally funded.
Cannon, who asked detailed questions of the government and defense throughout the morning portion of the hearing, seemed interested in the idea of how independently Smith has operated as he prosecutes the case. Trump separately faces a state case in Georgia over allegations that he attempted to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. That case is on pause as an attempt to disqualify the prosecutor in the case makes its way through the state appeals courts.of violating state laws when he falsified business records to cover up a hush money payments to a porn actress to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Jack Smith asks judge to bar Trump from making statements that endanger law enforcementThis is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
Read more »
Jack Smith asks judge to stop Trump from making claims about FBI assassination plotSpecial counsel Jack Smith asked a judge Friday to order former President Donald Trump to avoid producing any more claims that FBI agents were “complicit in a plot to assassinate him.”
Read more »
Jack Smith asks judge to restrict Trump statements after 'inflammatory' remarks about FBI raidFederal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump to bar him from public statements that may pose a danger to law enforcement.
Read more »
Judge rejects Jack Smith's move to muzzle TrumpThe federal judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal charges for allegedly mishandling classified documents at Mar-a-Lago rejected special counsel Jack Smith's request for a gag order against the former president Tuesday.
Read more »
Jack Smith wants Judge Cannon to stop Trump from putting law enforcement at riskJordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Read more »
Judge overseeing Trump's classified docs case will weigh if Jack Smith's appointment was lawfulThe judge overseeing former President Trump's criminal case over allegedly mishandling classified documents when he left the White House has set a hearing for this month over the legality of special counsel Jack Smith's selection.
Read more »