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☆ Fact Check: No evidence of Trump post to nominate Judge Cannon to Supreme Court
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

When I win (AGAIN - I NEVER LOST) I will make Judge Cannon a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE as soon as a vacancy is made. I will remake the SUPREME COURT so that these WITCH HUNTS by CORRUPT MEN will never happen again in our Great Country! MAGA!”However, the post does not appear on Trump’s Truth Social timeline (archived) or on Trump’s website (archived). Judge Cannon is a Trump appointee presiding over the classified documents criminal case against Trump. There is no evidence that Trump posted on Truth Social promising to make Judge Cannon a Supreme Court Justice if he wins the 2024 Presidential election.

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☆ Special counsel accuses Trump legal team of trying to manipulate courts with requests to delay trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s office have accused former President Donald Trump’s legal team of seeking to manipulate the courts in their bid to delay his trials past the 2024 presidential election. Currently, the 2020 election federal trial is set to begin in early March, and the Florida documents case is set to go to trial in late May. The request may be a long-shot before Chutkan of the DC federal District Court, who has indicated she wants the March trial date to hold. Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office – which is prosecuting both federal cases against Trump – seized on Trump’s request in DC as they argued to keep the Florida federal trial in the spring. Neither judge has said if Trump’s federal trial dates will stay as is.

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☆ Florida hearing may determine if Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents trial is delayed until after election
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Trump’s lawyers have repeatedly complained to the judge in the Mar-a-Lago criminal document-mishandling case that they haven’t had proper access to classified evidence in the case as they prepare for a trial next May. Cannon, a Trump appointee, has so far given Trump’s team some of the leeway they’ve asked for in the documents investigation. The defense teams have access to more than 1 million pages of information in the case, according to court filings. In a filing last week, prosecutors told the judge Trump’s team has cried wolf about their access to evidence in the case, including classified records. Trump’s legal team has been reviewing and discussing classified evidence in Miami, most recently on Tuesday, when the former president joined his lawyers in the SCIF during the afternoon, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t used to constraints. Trump is not only a former president, but also the leading candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Just days ago, he was fined $5,000 for violating the same gag order, which Engoron imposed after Trump targeted his principal law clerk on social media. Indeed, things are likely to get much more complicated for Trump in the coming months as his four criminal trials get underway. New York court officials have beefed up security for judges and court personnel involved in Trump matters in the wake of the threats.

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It is a problem that five U.S. state and federal judges are wrestling with as Trump faces four upcoming criminal trials and a civil fraud case. New York state Justice Arthur Engoron already has faced off with Trump on the issue. Trump has cast doubt on Chutkan's ability to give him a fair trial and called her "highly partisan." Ahead of his civil fraud trial, Trump, without providing evidence, accused the U.S. Justice Department of coordinating with New York state Attorney General Letitia James to damage his presidential campaign. One notable exception to Trump's criticism is the judge presiding over the classified documents criminal case in Florida.

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FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A judge on Thursday scolded federal prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump as she abruptly postponed a hearing to determine if the lawyer for a co-defendant had a conflict of interest. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon accused prosecutors of “wasting the court's time” by raising new arguments that they had not made in earlier court filings. She said she would set a hearing for a later date for Walt Nauta, a Trump valet charged with conspiring with Trump to conceal classified documents from investigators. Both men were charged alongside Trump with obstructing government efforts to recover classified documents hoarded at Mar-a-Lago, the former president's Florida estate. De Oliveira is accused of lying to investigators when he claimed — falsely, prosecutors say — he hadn’t even seen boxes moved into Mar-a-Lago after Trump left the White House.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have asked a judge to postpone his classified documents trial until after next year's presidential election, saying they have not received all the records they need to review to prepare his defense. The trial on charges of illegally hoarding classified documents, among four criminal cases the Republican former president is facing, is currently scheduled for May 20, 2024, in Florida. In a motion filed late Wednesday, Trump's lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to push back the trial until at least mid-November 2024. The presidential election is set for Nov. 5, 2024, with Trump currently leading the GOP field in the months before the primary season. The defense lawyers say Trump's two co-defendants in the case, his valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira, are joining in the request.

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But the challenge facing Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee in Georgia is unlike any of the others. For one, he is the only judge so far to allow television cameras in the courtroom to broadcast hearings and any trials. And the trials will play out in a battleground state that Trump narrowly lost in 2020. But the experience of some judges who have been thrust into the public eye point to potential pitfalls and dangers ahead for the 34-year-old Georgia native. “Hopefully, you have a life outside the law,” Cahill said during his talk in Reno about handling high-profile cases.

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., Aug. 8, 2023. REUTERS/Reba Saldanha/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 13 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers may only review classified evidence in a secure place as he prepares for a criminal trial over his handling of secret documents after he left office in 2021, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Wednesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida is a win for prosecutors, who said it would be inappropriate for Trump to be able to review classified documents at the very location where he is accused of illegally and haphazardly storing them. The order requires Trump and his lawyers to review and discuss all classified evidence in what is known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denied the charges, along with his co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

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☆ Trump Must Review Classified Documents Case Evidence in Secure Location, Judge Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Jack Queen(Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his lawyers may only review classified evidence in a secure place as he prepares for a criminal trial over his handling of secret documents after he left office in 2021, a judge ruled on Wednesday. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been charged along with two aides with illegally storing troves of classified documents at his personal residence and lying to federal investigators who sought to retrieve them. Wednesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida is a win for prosecutors, who said it would be inappropriate for Trump to be able to review classified documents at the very location where he is accused of illegally and haphazardly storing them. The order requires Trump and his lawyers to review and discuss all classified evidence in what is known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF. (This story has been refiled to add the dropped word 'not' in paragraph 7)(Reporting by Jack Queen; Additional reporting by Rami Ayyub, Paul Grant and Susan Heavey and Jack Queen; Editing by Grant McCool and Howard Goller)

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☆ Judge sets limits on Trump discussing classified info in Mar-a-Lago documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks during an event following his arraignment on classified document charges, at Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., June 13, 2023. A federal judge on Wednesday issued an order setting limits on where and how former President Donald Trump can discuss classified information with his defense lawyers for the criminal case where he is charged with retaining classified documents after leaving the White House. Cannon did not explicitly address a request by Trump to create a so-called Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, so that he could discuss classified information there as he prepares for trial in the case. Smith had opposed that request, noting, among other things, that Mar-a-Lago is the scene of the alleged crime. Smith also had opposed Trump's request to be allowed to discuss classified information in his office at Mar-a-Lago or his office at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

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☆ Trump’s access to classified information restricted as he heads to trial in documents case, federal judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Katelyn Polantz Tierney Sneed Hannah Rabinowitz | Katelyn Polantz | Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump will be restricted on how and when he can look at, and talk about, classified information, a judge decided Wednesday after a sealed hearing the day before. The development is one of the first times the court has set terms around classified information in a case where Trump’s team has tried to downplay the seriousness of how records were handled. Cannon held a sealed hearing about the handling of classified information in the case on Tuesday in South Florida, according to multiple sources familiar with the proceeding. But the judge said the SCIF areas would be overseen by a third-party officer from the federal government designated to guide the handling of the classified information in the federal case. Cannon’s order on Wednesday also specifies that apparently classified information in the case that hasn’t clearly been identified as being declassified should be treated with sensitivity.

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., August 8, 2023. Woodward currently represents Walt Nauta, one of the two Trump employees also charged in the documents case, in addition to having previously represented the IT head, who is not named in Wednesday's filing. But he suggested in Wednesday's filing that prosecutors' handling of the IT manager's testimony was improper. Prosecutors have charged Trump, Nauta and a third Mar-a-Lago employee, Carlos De Oliveira, with trying to thwart government efforts to retrieve sensitive documents taken to the Florida resort after Trump left office. Prosecutors said in an August court filing that the witness initially denied any knowledge of obstruction.

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☆ A Mar-a-Lago employee in charge of security cameras changed his testimony and implicated Trump after switching attorneys, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Trump Employee 4" had initially been represented by a lawyer paid for by a Trump political action committee. Nauta is represented by Stanley Woodward, who previously repped Trump Employee 4, and prosecutors said that Woodward's continued presence in the case could also mark a conflict of interest. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Advising Trump Employee 4 to correct his sworn testimony would result in testimony incriminating Mr. Woodward's other client, Nauta; but permitting Trump Employee 4's false testimony to stand uncorrected would leave Trump Employee 4 exposed to criminal charges for perjury," prosecutors said in the filing. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the latest development, federal prosecutors said that they plan to call on Taveras to describe the pressure campaign to delete security footage. "The Government anticipates calling Trump Employee 4 as a trial witness and expects that he will testify to conduct alleged in the superseding indictment regarding efforts to delete security footage," prosecutors wrote.

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☆ Opinion: What Fani Willis’ case shows us about the power of local prosecutors
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Opinion Dave Aronberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Whether they are called district attorneys, state’s attorneys or something else, the job of local prosecutors has traditionally flown under the national political radar. In fact, unlike the attorney general, a local district attorney cannot be fired by the president. The lesson for Meadows is that the local district attorney isn’t automatically bound by any deal with the feds. Willis and Bragg are not the only state prosecutors making headlines this year. Trump’s legal team is so fearful of state court that they have been fighting to “remove” his New York criminal case to federal court.

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☆ Looming Trump trials are throwing judges into an election maelstrom
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Judges are being forced into an unprecedented and perilous spot in the middle of an already tempestuous presidential campaign because of rising acrimony over the criminal trials of Donald Trump. Indeed, Trump and his allies are already framing the four indictments against him as an example of election interference. Smith’s prosecutors implicitly admitted this in arguing in the federal election subversion case that there was an overriding national interest in avoiding unnecessary delays – given the identity of the accused. Thorny questions judges must addressThe fateful decisions that judges will be called on to make go far beyond when the trials take place. For instance, one of his lawyers argued that Smith’s election subversion case cannot be fairly tried in Washington, where Trump won only 5% of the vote.

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☆ Trump judge sets sealed hearing for special counsel's security request in documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Florida federal judge on Thursday said she would hold a hearing sealed from the public to discuss prosecutors' request for an order to protect classified material at the heart of a criminal case against former President Donald Trump. The hearing "will take place at a designated time and place to discuss sensitive, security-related issues concerning classified discovery," Judge Aileen Cannon said in a written order. Cannon did not say in the order where and when that hearing will occur. But she said that Trump and his co-defendants in the case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, did not have to attend the hearing. Trump is charged in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida with crimes related to retaining classified government records after leaving the White House and trying to cover up the fact that he was keeping those documents in boxes at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

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☆ Opinion: Fani Willis is taking a major gamble on the Trump case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Opinion Jennifer Rodgers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

This argument has been partially successful with US District Judge Aileen Cannon in the federal classified documents case. It is unclear whether the judge assigned to the Georgia case would be amenable to delay arguments. I expect that, as in the New York case, where the judge recently denied such a motion, Trump will seek to move the case against him to federal court. While those decisions may not be binding on the Georgia judge, they will be informative as he considers the issues. As president, Trump would have the power to scuttle the federal cases and a greater ability to avoid accountability in the state cases as well.

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As president, Trump could try to pardon himself for federal crimes or otherwise seek to dismiss the Justice Department’s cases with “control” of the agency, his attorneys have said. Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Trial Date: May 20, 2024Sentence the Charges Carry: each carries a maximum fine of $250,000, with a maximum prison sentence of between five and 20 years. Jurisdiction: U.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaTrial date: TBDSentence the Charges Carry: Each carries a maximum prison sentence of between five and 20 years. Willis had requested a trial date of Aug. 5, 2024, but McAfee has not yet settled on a date.

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☆ Trump's 4 criminal cases, ranked in order of how screwed he is
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Sonam Sheth | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Former President Donald Trump has been indicted in four separate criminal cases since leaving office. This week, he made history again as the first former president to be charged in four separate criminal cases. For some charges, he's unlikely to see jail time if he's convicted. Trump has denied all the criminal charges against him. Ethan Miller/Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesManhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg was the first to bring criminal charges against Trump.

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☆ Feds say Trump not entitled to 'special treatment' in documents case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Prosecutors told Judge Aileen Cannon that Trump is not entitled — as he has requested — to review or discuss any classified information in the case in a newly constructed sensitive compartmented information facility in one of his homes. Federal prosecutors on Monday said former President Donald Trump is seeking "special treatment that no other defendant would receive" in the criminal case accusing him of retaining classified documents at his Florida club after leaving the White House . "In essence, he is asking to be the only defendant ever in a case involving classified information (at least to the Government's knowledge) who would be able to discuss classified information in a private residence," the filing said. Prosecutors want Cannon to order that Trump and his lawyers only be allowed to discuss classified information within special secured locations, also known as SCIFs. The filing said that the proposed protective order that prosecutors are seeking "reflects standard procedures for handling classified information in criminal cases and is consistent with the law."

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☆ Takeaways from Judge Chutkan’s contentious first hearing in the Trump 2020 election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

As the presiding judge, Chutkan will play a major role in shaping the proceedings in the lead-up to and during the trial. A major throughline of the hearing was her insistence that Trump’s 2024 political campaign could not override the administration of justice in the case. This case is going to proceed in a normal order,” Chutkan said. But many of her rulings regarding the protective order fell in the prosecutors’ favor. Trump’s lawyers were arguing that other individuals, including volunteers, should be able to work through evidence to assist Trump in the case.

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☆ A showdown over Trump’s trial date reflects an irreconcilable clash between campaign politics and justice
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The campaign trail will run as much through various court rooms as through the fabled rituals of an American election year. Furthermore, the events surrounding Trump’s denial of his 2020 election defeat have been in the public domain for years. But Trump’s team has already warned it may need up to three-and-a-half years to prepare his defense. His forceful opening gambit on the date suggests a strategy to ensure that any compromise date the judge arrives at will still be relatively early in 2024. The question of a trial date will likely wait for a subsequent hearing.

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Judge Tanya Chutkan has already shown a habit of responding quickly and tersely on the docket to debates between the parties over scheduling. Friday’s hearing could set the tone for how the case against Trump will proceed and how Chutkan will manage what has already been contentious feuding between the parties and test her abilities to keep the proceedings on track. Trump pleaded not guilty to four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election last week. In this case, however, the special counsel’s office and Trump’s defense lawyers have battled in court filings over what Trump will be able to discuss publicly. If Trump were to violate any eventual protective order Chutkan issues, he could be held in contempt.

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☆ A day of legal action in Trump imbroglio previews a chaotic 2024 election year
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

All of this frenzied activity unfolding on one day represents just a snapshot of the complex legal morass now surrounding Trump. And while Monday was notable for a head-spinning sequence of legal maneuvering, it did not even encompass all of the pending cases against Trump. When it comes to Smith’s indictment, Trump’s lawyers are arguing that he was within his rights to claim the election was stolen. Trump’s legal plight reverberates in 2024 campaignAny normal political candidate would have seen their political ambitions crushed by even one of the cases in Trump’s bulging portfolio of legal jeopardy. Thanks to Trump’s unfathomable and widening legal nightmare, nothing about the 2024 election is going to be anywhere near normal.

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