Given U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s slow handling of Donald Trump’s classified documents case and the backlog of motions holding up a trial, it’s always notable when she makes decisions that might let a trial take place someday. That happened Monday, when she rejected a defense motion that sought to dismiss charges for “pleading deficiencies,” […]
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Judge in Trump’s classified documents trial expunges indictment paragraph
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of retaining classified documents agreed on Monday to expunge from the indictment a paragraph about an episode where the former president waved around a classified document at his Bedminster club in New Jersey. The US district judge Aileen Cannon ruled she would strike the paragraph because […]