Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court essentially removed the chance that former President Donald Trump would face legal proceedings in July regarding his purported mishandling of classified documents.
Cannon gave Trump until May 9 to reveal the classified documents he would use to support his case in an order on Wednesday.
Reporter Hugo Lowell of the Guardian noted that on March 18, special counsel Jack Smith suggested that Trump submit his notification under Section 5 of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA).
“That’s not an unreasonable length of time to give Trump — it’s typical to give defendants in NatSec cases several weeks to draft their Sec 5 notice so it’s sufficiently specific. But a May 9 deadline might be frustrating for the Special Counsel,” Lowell wrote on X.
