Commentary: How Jack Smith just called out Judge Aileen Cannon in the Trump classified records case
Jack Smith has had enough. Late Monday, the special counsel responded to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s bizarre recent order in the classified records case against Donald Trump, which asked the parties to propose jury instructions based on flagrantly wrong legal premises. Smith’s answer, in effect, was “I’m not playing.” Rather than take on Cannon’s cockamamie assignment, Smith laid out ...
by Harry Litman, Los Angeles Times
Apr 04, 2024
3 minutes
Jack Smith has had enough.
Late Monday, the special counsel responded to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s bizarre recent order in the classified records case against Donald Trump, which asked the parties to propose jury instructions based on flagrantly wrong legal premises. Smith’s answer, in effect, was “I’m not playing.”
Rather than take on Cannon’s cockamamie assignment, Smith laid out accurate jury instructions based on the actual charges and law.
Cannon had ordered the parties to “engage with” the Trump team’s recurrent misinterpretation
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