Trump Judge Assailed by Prosecutor Over 'Flawed' Trial Planning

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Cannon ordered Smith and Trump to each propose jury instructions.
47% : Cannon ordered Smith and Trump last month to draft instructions for the jury that will hear the case, even though a date for a trial hasn't been finalized.
32% : Cannon's order was controversial because it directed Smith to assume that Trump may have had the right to declare the documents are personal rather than official under a 1978 law known as the Presidential Records Act.
27% : Trump isn't charged with violating the Presidential Records Act.
24% : "Both scenarios posited in the court's March 18 order are consistent with President Trump's position that this prosecution is based on official acts that President Trump took during his first term in office," Trump's lawyers wrote.
22% : Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, has repeatedly drawn criticism that her rulings have favored him.
17% : Trump is accused in the case of willfully retaining national defense documents, concealing records and obstructing justice by evading government efforts to retrieve the files he took.

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