Judge Rejects Request From Jack Smith in Trump Case

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Ruling means trial won’t happen as planned, former prosecutor says.

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.

The notice “‘is the central document in CIPA,'” prosecutors wrote, quoting a prior court ruling. “It enables the government to know what classified information the defense seeks to disclose at trial or in any ancillary hearings and sets the stage for proceedings under CIPA Section 6. Timely notification under CIPA Section 5 ensures that a trial can go forward without delay.”

Because President Trump’s team has access to about 5,500 pages of classified materials, they are in a position to provide notice under CIPA as to which of the materials “they reasonably expect to disclose at trial,” the special counsel’s office added. “Providing such notice by a set, near-term date will facilitate the completion of CIPA litigation before the May 20, 2024 trial date.”

Lawyers for President Trump opposed the motion, according to the government.

Judge Cannon, appointed under President Trump, swiftly rejected Mr. Smith’s request.

She referred to her Nov. 10 order, which reset pre-trial deadlines based on a review of CIPA cases presented by the parties. The order also left other deadlines up in the air pending a conference scheduled for March 1, 2024.

“To the extent the special counsel’s motion seeks reconsideration in part of the court’s November 10, 2023, Order 215, that request is denied,” Judge Cannon said in the new paperless order on Thursday. “CIPA Section 5 deadlines, and all other pre-trial deadlines not included in the first batch of pre-trial deadlines contained in the court’s revised schedule 215, will be set following the March 1, 2024, scheduling conference.”

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