U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has given former President Donald Trump a huge legal win in his classified documents case brought by special counsel Jack Smith.
Cannon on Monday agreed to a Trump legal team request to extend a May 9 deadline. Two of his co-defendants had their deadlines extended as well, Newsweek reported.
“It relates to Section 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), which would disclose what sensitive materials Trump intends to use at the trial,” the outlet’s report continued.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 40 federal charges related to allegations of illegally retaining classified materials after leaving the White House in January 2021, as well as obstructing the federal attempt to retrieve them. In recent decades, former President Bill Clinton, his national security adviser Sandy Berger, former Vice President and now President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Mike Pence have each been found to have classified materials in their possession, though none of them were similarly charged.
