Legal Experts Warn of Implications as Special Counsel Challenges Judge's Jury Instructions in Trump Documents Case
TL;DR
Special counsel Jack Smith strongly rebuked Judge Aileen Cannon's request for jury instructions in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, criticizing her embrace of Trump's claims of broad authority to take classified government documents. Cannon's request for hypothetical jury instructions appears to show that she is still considering how, or if, the Presidential Records Act fits into the case at large, while Trump's defense attorneys argue that the act authorized Trump to possess certain documents.
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