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Judge declines to push back Trump's classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines

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A federal judge in Florida has declined to postpone former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial. U.S.

Judge declines to push back Trump's classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at least a modest victory for special counsel Jack Smith’s team, which had vigorously rejected efforts to push off the trial beyond its scheduled start date of May 20, 2024. Trump’s lawyers had argued that they needed more time to review the large trove of evidence with which they’d been presented and cited scheduling challenges resulting from the other legal cases against Trump, including three additional criminal prosecutions for which he is awaiting trial.

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