Judge Rejects Request From Jack Smith in Trump Case

Published on November 16, 2023

Special counsel Jack Smith’s request to set a new deadline for former President Donald Trump’s lawyers to alert the government of classified information they want to present during an upcoming trial has been turned down by a federal judge. A former prosecutor says the move means the trial, currently scheduled for May 2024, will happen at a later date. Mr. Smith’s team on Nov. 15 asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to set a deadline for President Trump’s lawyers to file a notice under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) noting that when Judge Cannon recently reset a number of deadlines she did not include a new date for the notice....

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