Judge Cannon weighs arguments over tossing evidence in classified documents case

Published June 25, 2024 8:40pm ET



Judge Aileen Cannon appeared skeptical on Tuesday at a hearing of Donald Trump‘s arguments that key evidence in the classified documents case against the former president should be tossed out.

Cannon listened as Trump’s attorneys argued that Department of Justice prosecutors misled a magistrate judge when they requested authorization for a search warrant to obtain the evidence. The FBI executed the warrant in August 2022 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, where agents obtained boxes full of documents, including some with classified markings.

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