The Trump-appointed judge overseeing his classified documents case may be at risk of being removed from the case after special counsel Jack Smith pushed back on her recent order, legal experts say.
Smith earlier this week submitted hypothetical jury instructions in response to an order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon asking for proposed jury instructions that seemed to give credence to Trump’s claim that the Presidential Records Act allowed him to deem government records as personal property. Smith said these instructions were based on a “fundamentally flawed legal premise” and that the PRA “has no bearing” on Trump’s charges under the Espionage Act.
