Judge Orders Hearing On Mar-A-Lago Search Warrant

The Washington Post reports:

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon said Thursday that she will hold a hearing for Donald Trump’s lawyers to challenge some of the evidence gathered against him for alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them.

In an 11-page order, the judge said that “further factual development is warranted” when it comes to Trump’s challenge to the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago — his Florida home and private club. FBI agents searched his home on Aug. 8, 2022, finding 103 classified documents that eventually led to his indictment.

The former president, who is the presumptive Republican challenger to President Biden in the November election, is seeking to suppress much of that evidence by arguing that the search warrant was faulty.

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NEW: Judge Cannon denies Trump’s request for a Franks hearing on alleged false statements or omissions in the affidavit supporting Mar-a-Lago search warrant.

But she GRANTS his request for an evidentiary hearing on particularity of the warrant and attorney-client privilege. pic.twitter.com/3QJuYC5iA7

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