‘His counsel cannot prepare’: Trump lawyers tell Mar-a-Lago judge it’s ‘virtually impossible task’ to juggle hush-money trial defense and ‘critical’ deadlines

Donald Trump, Jack Smith

Donald Trump (left) (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall); Jack Smith (right) (AP Photo: J. Scott Applewhite.)

Donald Trump’s defense lawyers reiterated their demand to push back key Mar-a-Lago case deadlines, calling it a “virtually impossible task” to handle the hush-money trial and the “critical stage” of the Espionage Act case simultaneously.

The Thursday filing from Christopher Kise, Todd Blanche, and Emil Bove maintained that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon should move a CIPA § 5(a) Notice deadline until three weeks after Trump’s expected six-week New York trial ends.

As Law&Crime explained earlier in the week, the Department of Justice describes a CIPA § 5(a) Notice as the “linchpin” of the Classified Information Procedures Act, a statute that lays out how to guard classified information while using it in a criminal proceeding.

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