Jack Smith Is Getting Fed Up With Trump's Classified Docs Judge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump has argued that his retention of classified documents after his ouster from the White House was perfectly legal.
51% : Cannon requested the prosecution and defense explore one scenario in which the jury would be instructed that "a former President is authorized to possess any document that the jurydetermines qualifies as a personal record as defined by the PRA," and asked to determine if the classified records in question qualify as presidential or personal; and another in which they will be instructed that the president has near absolute authority to retain records as they see fit.Smith took issue with the suggestion that jurors could be presented with an interpretation of the law that would place the Presidential Records Act (PRA) over the Espionage Act.
41% : "The PRA's distinction between personal and presidential records has no bearing on whether a former President's possession of documents containing national defense information is authorized under the Espionage Act, and the PRA should play no role in the jury instructions," Smith wrote.
27% : "Trump has never represented to this Court that he in fact designated the classified documents as personal [...] As discussed below, the reason is simple: he never did so.
10% : Cannon, who was appointed by Trump to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in 2020, has been criticized for her apparent indecision and slow-walking of major decisions in the case -- allowing Trump's defense team to languish as the former president seeks to delay his criminal trials through the November election.

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