Former President Donald Trump was back in a Florida courtroom on Thursday as his lawyers argued for a dismissal of his ongoing classified documents case.
Trump’s legal team was arguing its position on whether all or some of the charges should be thrown out because of the 1978 law that governs the preservation of information during and following a presidency.
Special counsel Jack Smith has called on the judge overseeing the case to reject Trump’s claim that he should be shielded from prosecution because classified presidential records “can be transformed into ‘personal’” records by removing them from the White House. Trump has said that he designated the materials he took to Mar-a-Lago as personal records while still in office. A president’s personal records are excluded from the act’s requirements.
The presiding judge, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, expressed some…
