Judge Aileen Cannon pushes back on idea that more hearings will delay Trump classified document case

judge aen Canon pushes back on idea that more hearings will delay Trump classified documents case judge aen Canon wants to hold additional hearings on Donald Trump's attempts to challenge key evidence in his classified documents case and will allow the former president's lawyers to question Witnesses about the investigation and search of maralago on Thursday the Florida based judge said in a new order that she wants more evidence about the language in the FBI warrant used to seize classified records from maralago in 2022 and about grand jury testimony from Trump's former attorney Evan Corran those issues were argued in hearings on Tuesday but Canon did not rule on the matters the judge did not say when additional hearings would be held Canon has been widely criticized for dragging out the case over multiple hearings and a prosecutor at the hearing earlier this week told her he believed the Trump team was trying to hijack the proceedings as a way to spread conspiracies about the work of federal investigators on this case in her 11-page order Thursday Canon seemed to push back on her critics there is a difference between a resource wasting And Delay producing mini trial on the one hand and an evidentiary hearing geared to adjudicating the contested factual and legal issues on a given pre-trial motion to suppress Canon wrote Canon said she would revisit the language used in the search warrant to seize property from maralago 2 years ago and and the Justice Department's use of corran's testimony to bolster the obstruction part of the case the special council's office has strongly opposed the need for additional hearings and Trump's attempts to cut out parts of the case those Court proceedings which would include witness testimony in evidence presentation would happen before a trial Canon then would need to decide if evidence seized from Trump's Florida estate and corran's grand jury testimony could be used at trial Canon has not said dates for the additional hearings yet in her order she laid out the next steps before more hearings can happen the parties can meaningfully confer beforehand on the scope and timing of the hearing raising appropriate objections with the court as necessary the parties can and will file exhibit and witness lists as is customary in Federal Criminal suppression litigation and the special councel can request the court to impose reasonable limitations on the evidence produced to ensure efficiency and control the judge said Trump's lawyers say they believe the wording used in the search warrant to authorize agents to seize National Defense information and presidential records wasn't specific enough and Canon agreed that there were ambiguities the court determines that some of the terms in that document do not carry generally understood meaning s such that a law enforcement agent without further clarification would have known to identify such material as seizable property the judge wrote vot on Thursday further factual development is warranted related to defendant Trump's particularity challenge of the search warrants language Canon denied Trump's request however for another hearing about the validity of the Court approved warrant to search several rooms at maralago Trump's team is also testing a Washington DC federal Court's decision during the grand jury investigation to force corkran to share his conversations with Trump after finding Trump may have misled his attorney while attempting to obstruct Federal authorities from recovering classified records after his presidency Canon said she would look again at the use of corran's notes and testimony about his former client it is the obligation of this court to make factual findings a fresh on the crime fraud issue Canon wrote and a standard means by which to make such findings AAS is customary in criminal suppression litigation IIs following an evidentiary hearing at which both sides can present evidence documentary and testimonial as applicable in an order Thursday Canon also said she would allow one more filing from each party on the proposed gag order from the special council's office during a hearing over the gag order Monday Canon told prosecutors there needed to be a factual connection between A and B referring to the gap between Trump's comments and potential threats prosecutors have warned about Trump campaign spokesman Steven Chung said in a statement that the case should be thrown out highly respected judge aen Cannon has rightfully scheduled hearings on the unconstitutional piercing of President Trump's attorney client privilege and the illegal raid on maral Lago by crooked Joe Biden's doj Chung said the entire document case was a political sham from the very beginning and it should be thrown out entirely e e e e e e for

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