U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon denied Trump's defense lawyers' request to dismiss some of the charges in the indictment.
But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon did agree to strike a paragraph from the indictment that defense lawyers said was prejudicial and included information that was not essential to the underlying charges. The paragraph concerned allegations that Trump showed a classified map of a foreign country to a representative of his political action committee while discussing a military operation.
The motion to dismiss the counts is one of multiple pretrial requests and disputes that for months have piled up before Cannon, snarling the progress of the case and prompting the judge last month to indefinitely postpone a trial that had been set for May 20 in Fort Pierce, Fla. She has scheduled additional arguments for later this month, including on a Trump challenge to the legality and funding of the Justice Department’s appointment of Smith as special counsel last year.
The delays are all the more startling given that many legal experts had seen the classified documents case as exceedingly straightforward in its allegations that Trump had illegallyThe defendants in this particular motion had sought to throw out more than a half-dozen of the 41 counts in the indictment, which also accuses Trump of conspiring withThe defendants had challenged counts related to obstruction and false statements, but Cannon said in an order Monday that “the identified deficiencies,...
Cannon has already rejected multiple other motions to dismiss the case, including one that suggested that Trump was authorized under a statute known as theto keep the documents with him after he left the White House and to designate them as his personal files.By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners.
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