What is interesting about what she said, though, is that she's kicking all of this to the trial itself. And the trial could well be a mess, allowing Trump to raise defenses that really no one else would be allowed to raise and essentially scuttling a trial if she ever gets to one.
Former Judge Nancy Gertner comments on the implications of Judge Cannon's handling of Trump's motions and the potential impact on the trial.
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This is power, it seems to me, that is baked into the Constitution and cannot be taken away.
I don't think there's any question that he himself is under investigation for violations of the Espionage Act.
The classified information that is being described is not and can't possibly be shielded by executive privilege. In other words, he didn't have a right to have it, he didn't have a right to have it in his beach house.
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