WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – JANUARY 20: Outgoing US President Donald Trump waves to supporters lined along on the route to his Mar-a-Lago estate on January 20, 2021 in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Florida, where he faces 40 felony charges related to his retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, is on hold indefinitely — a significant blow to special counsel Jack Smith — but that’s not all: in a few weeks, over an upcoming series of hearings, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has arranged to put Smith and his team to the test.
As Cannon laid out in an order this week, the Trump-appointed judge scheduled a new set of late July deadlines for Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) litigation to be filed where Trump and his lawyers will be able to specify which classified information they have obtained from discovery and then, she set an important three-day hearing for late June.
Those hearings will weigh arguments on whether Smith was rightfully appointed to prosecute Trump and whether Trump’s motion to dismiss the case altogether is warranted. They will get underway June 24 and are currently scheduled to continue through June 26.
Law&Crime takes a look at this and other developments in Trump’s cases in Florida, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and New York.
