"Judge's Security Clearance Order Sparks Oversight of Trump Case"
TL;DR
Lawyers representing former President Donald Trump in his indictment on charges of illegally retaining national defense information have been ordered by Judge Aileen M. Cannon to start the process of obtaining security clearances to handle classified material by early next week. The lawyers will need an active clearance because Trump has been accused of illegally taking 31 documents with him when he left office, many of which were classified as top secret. The legal battle is likely to revolve around the Classified Information Procedures Act, which lays out ways of safely introducing classified material at public trials.
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- Judge Cannon jumpstarts oversight of Trump classified documents case with order on security clearances CNN
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