to be done, you re able to handle this and you re able to do it post-case. there s no way to do it. if trump s lawyers are complaining he has other indictments, maybe he should stop crying and only face one at a time. the more the merrier. what does katie really think i love that. tell me, charles, knowing jack smith and how clear the regulations are, what about the time line, what s a time line here? it really depends on what jack smith s second 4 motion. to continue where katie left off, it s basically a provision in cipa that more or less has you lay out for the court, here s the documents, then you ll have the response by the defense, so on. so depending how intricate they get with respect to the section 4 motion of the cipa. that s going to determine what s
The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents criminal case ended a Tuesday afternoon hearing without setting a trial date as she weighs competing time frame requests from the Justice Department and the former president.
contains a political argument and a legal argument. you have to put the political argument aside. when you continue cases for political arguments, you could say it could interfere with the iowa caucuses, then the debate, then the south carolina primary, and i don t think we can go down that path. those are jury selection issues. the legal arguments are not that crazy. if you do the math, they are really saying until after the election, which seems like forever, but it s 17 months as i count it. right now, judge cannon, is trying a case. it s that complicated medicare fraud case that was indicted 18 months ago, so we re not the rocket docket like virginia. every judge is different. but i think judge cannon, the whole world is watching, and i think she s going to hold both parties feet to the fire, and i think the first thing that has to be dealt with is the cipa issues, and that to the media s
i think you are going to see a lot of defense council saying that there are things they can t do, even on the non classified material, until they see the classified material and it fully absorbed. so, they are going to try and use that as a wedge to try and slow things down. the other thing they tried to do, which is, which is something that cipa the statute is there to avoid, is, the defense is going to try and say, we don t need just 31 documents that are the subject of the indictment. we need to see a whole range of other things. and there will be litigation over that issue. and there is some stuff that clearly it seems very clear there is some stuff that seems even more it s possible that there is stuff that is even more classified that they just did not want to show anyone. absolutely. so, the statute is there to avoid what is called gray male if. you are on the defense side, you because you want the government to be in position where they want to say, can we still bri
interesting to know whether that changes the jury pool, and whether she is going to then poll pulled the potential jurors from the area around her, as opposed to around miami, and then i m sure that have different views around which is better for who. let s talk about the sort of two categories. you said cipa, which is the classified information protection act, i think? that provides such a tory guidance for how you deal with classified information. in these sorts of cases obviously, you worked on national security at the department of justice. say more about the fact that we might not know about what is going on. sure. so, in order to have litigation litigation over classified documents, you have to have the government has to have clearance. and here, by the way, the governments documents are so sensitive, that the prosecutors may not have had cleared for quite some time into these compartment compartmented programs.