The judge presiding over former President Trump’s classified documents case has expanded a hearing for later this month to focus on whether the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unlawful and invalid.
Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida postponed the trial stemming from Smith’s investigation into Trump’s alleged improper retention of classified records indefinitely.
Meese, however, in his briefs filed in several points in the Trump cases, argued that 'none of those statutes, nor any other statutory or constitutional provisions, remotely authorized the appointment by the Attorney General of a private citizen to receive extraordinary criminal law enforcement power under the title of Special Counsel.
There are some boxes where the order of items within that box is not the same as in the associated scans,' Smith's filing states. The prosecutors had previously told the court that the documents were 'in their original, intact form as seized.' House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan is investigating whether that evidence was 'altered or manipulated.' Smith also charged Trump in a separate jurisdiction – in Washington, D.C.
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