A month after former President Donald Trump was charged with mishandling classified documents, the judge presiding over the case is set to take on a more visible role as she weighs competing requests on a trial date and hears arguments this week on a key area of law.

A month after former President Donald Trump was charged with mishandling classified documents, the judge presiding over the case is set to take on a more visible role as she weighs competing requests on a trial date and hears arguments this week on a procedural, but potentially crucial, area of the law.

  • @MicroWaveOPEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    A pretrial conference Tuesday to discuss procedures for handling classified information will represent the first courtroom arguments in the case before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon since Trump was indicted five weeks ago. The arguments could provide insight into how Cannon intends to preside over the case while she also confronts the unresolved question of how to schedule Trump’s trial as he campaigns for president.

    • ChainweaselEnglish
      29•1 year ago

      how to schedule Trump’s trial as he campaigns for president.

      Conservatives keep saying that the DOJ is treating Trump unfairly and I agree, do you think the DOJ would take our busy schedules into account when setting up a trial?