‘Relentless and misleading’: Jack Smith shreds new Trump motion as proof he will ‘stop at nothing’ to delay Mar-a-Lago documents case

Left: Special Counsel Jack Smith. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)/Center: In this image from video provided by the U.S. Senate, Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020./Right: Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Left: Special Counsel Jack Smith (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File); Center: Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing (U.S. Senate); Right: Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

A federal judge late Tuesday agreed to keep secret the names of potential government witnesses in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case — while managing to make her displeasure palpable in the order granting the government’s requests.

In her 24-page order, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled in favor of the state and the defense, in part, and at least, for now.

The ruling marks something of a limited-duration denouement to a long-running procedural dispute — one that threatened to become a broader appellate fight — in the Southern District of Florida. That dispute featured the state on one side and the defendants and Cannon on the other over a large set of discovery materials.

Cannon spends over five pages dealing with what she describes as the “lengthy procedural history” of the since-stilled dispute.

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