Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified docs prosecution of Donald Trump Tuesday because the DOJ failed to correctly preserve key evidence. The ruling is a big blow to Smith and the DOJ and throws the future of their case into doubt.
It’s yet another holdup in the trial and one that could decide whether this matter is resolved before election day:
The suspension marks yet another delay in a prosecution where Cannon has yet to even set a new trial date, casting further doubt on the chances the case will come before a jury ahead of the election.
It also scuttles an important discussion over which classified documents Trump and his co-defendants wish to use at trial — a battle now waylaid by the former president even as prosecutors argue “intra-box document sequencing” has no bearing on how the defendants will build their case.
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