Judge rejects bid by Trump to throw out classified documents case on constitutional grounds
This image, contained in the indictment against former President Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. A federal judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Donald Trump to throw out his classified documents criminal case and appeared skeptical during hours of arguments of a separate effort to scuttle the prosecution ahead of trial. A separate motion argued Thursday about whether Trump was entitled under the Presidential Records Act to retain the documents remains pending, but the judge “It’s difficult to see how this gets you to the dismissal of an indictment,” she told a Trump lawyer at one point. “They are nowhere close to it under the definition of the Presidential Records Act.” Politics Trump classified documents hearing ends with no new trial date In the first hearing before federal Judge Aileen Cannon, who has set the trial for mid-August, prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers seek a later date, but disagree how much later. The judge told Trump’s attorney that striking down a statute — as the defense is seeking — would be “quite an extraordinary step.” But she also pointedly noted to a prosecutor that no former president has ever been charged with mishandling classified documents.
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