Judge Aileen Cannon appeared skeptical on Tuesday at a hearing of Donald Trump‘s arguments that key evidence in the classified documents case against the former president should be tossed out.
Cannon listened as Trump’s attorneys argued that Department of Justice prosecutors misled a magistrate judge when they requested authorization for a search warrant to obtain the evidence. The FBI executed the warrant in August 2022 at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, where agents obtained boxes full of documents, including some with classified markings.
Trump’s attorneys had asked Cannon for a Frank’s hearing, a proceeding that would allow for a review of whether the DOJ used misleading warrant documents.
Cannon designated Tuesday’s hearing, which came at the end of a three-day marathon of proceedings in the Florida courtroom, to listen to arguments from Trump’s attorneys about how…
