What Jack Smith 'has to face' now that Trump trial is postponed: legal expert

08 May 2024

Judge Aileen Cannon — who's presiding over Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case — postponed the former president's trial indefinitely on Tuesday.

Trial was scheduled to begin on May 20, but Politico's Kyle Cheney reported that "it could be months before we know the full schedule."

Speaking with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar Wednesday, CNN senior crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz emphasized that statement.

"In the coming months so there is no way that this case will be able to go to trial or even have a trial date set in the next couple of weeks, and very unlikely that we even see when a trial could be possible until late July at the earliest," she said.

Keilar asked, "So how is the special counsel responding here at Katelyn? Jack Smith — what are his options?"

The CNN reporter replied, "Well, the options for the special counsel in the Justice department are the same as any lawyer in this sort of situation at as of right now. You follow the judge's orders, you follow the schedule that she set, and you show up for the hearings and for the deadlines that she has set for motions."

Polantz also noted, "One of the things to highlight, just how this process has played out in this case, is that back in February, everything was argued, in full, about whether there could be additional hearings over a motion by the Trump team to dig into the prosecution of the case. To try and claim — and maybe try and get more evidence into the record — if they could find it, that the [President Joe] Biden administration was targeting Donald Trump unfairly somehow."

She continued, "The Justice department fought against that. Judge Cannon, just now, as of yesterday, is saying, 'Okay, let's have a hearing on that in late June.' that's on the calendar now. So it has been months just for that issue to blossom to the point of the judge saying 'Okay, I'll have a hearing. And clearly that hearing was not something that the special counsel's office saw to be legally correct, but are going to have to face that whenever the time comes in late June to have that hearing."

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