The longer it takes for Cannon to decide these issues, the more likely a trial would need to wait until after the November presidential election.
But Cannon’s critics view the pace of the Trump prosecution with added suspicion because of how she handled a separate, 2022 lawsuit Trump brought attacking the FBI’s documents investigation.
In that lawsuit, Cannon granted an extraordinary Trump request for a third-party review of the FBI’s 2022 search of his Mar-a-Lago resort for the classified documents.
Now, critics accuse Cannon of – purposely or not – playing into Trump’s strategy of delaying the trial until after the election.
Hours after the hearing, Cannon rejected Trump’s first claim, that the national defense law he is charged under was too vague.
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