Prosecutors Blast Judge’s Order In Trump’s Docs Case

The New York Times reports:

In an open display of frustration, federal prosecutors on Tuesday night told the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case that a “fundamentally flawed” order she had issued was causing delays and asked her to quickly resolve a critical dispute about one of Mr. Trump’s defenses — leaving them time to appeal if needed.

The unusual and risky move by the prosecutors, contained in a 24-page filing, signaled their mounting impatience with the judge, Aileen M. Cannon, who has allowed the case to become bogged down in a logjam of unresolved issues and curious procedural requests.

In their filing, prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, all but begged Judge Cannon to move the case along and make a binding decision about one of Mr. Trump’s most brazen claims: that he cannot be prosecuted for having taken home a trove of national security documents after leaving office because he transformed them into his own personal property under a law known as the Presidential Records Act.

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Trump citing the Presidential Records Act is irrelevant to his stolen documents case. And even if it did apply, the law was put in place after Watergate to ensure that records from a president’s time in office remain in the possession of the government.https://t.co/gj8Ki5bwx5

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) April 3, 2024