The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal case in Florida issued a rare ruling against the former president on Friday, denying his request to push back the May 2024 trial on charges he mishandled classified documents.
However, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee who has repeatedly ruled in his favor, did agree to push back some pre-trial deadlines and revisit other deadlines, including the trial date, in March. She warned that the case’s “unusually high volume of unclassified and classified [evidence]” meant that circumstances may change.
“[T]he quantity of discovery in this case remains exceedingly voluminous, even more so than initially thought,” she wrote. “To be sure, the Special Counsel has taken various steps to produce discovery on a regular basis. But even with these efforts, discovery has increased sizably from initial estimates.”
