The Florida classified documents case against former President Donald Trump is not going well for special counsel Jack Smith, both in pace and in consistency.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, an appointee of Trump, reprimanded Smith in a Sunday afternoon order relating to requests for redactions by parties in the criminal case.
But the larger concern for the judge is that Smith’s office failed to explain a basis for why the special counsel couldn’t defend the integrity of his office while simultaneously preserving witness safety rules he has repeatedly cited to the court “and which the Court has endeavored with diligence to accommodate in its multiple Orders on sealing/redaction.”
While the details at the core of the dispute between Cannon and Smith aren’t clear due to much of the case remaining under seal, the latest scolding by the judge underscores the deterioration of the relationship between the prosecution and the jurist at the helm of the case.
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