Trump finally files 'crucial' notice on use of classified material as part of Mar-a-Lago defense
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 18th, 2024, 8:23 am
After Donald Trump’s lawyers successfully pushed back a key deadline to file a “linchpin” notice for moving the Mar-a-Lago case toward trial, having cited the Manhattan hush-money case that has since ended with 34 felony convictions, the attorneys finally revealed their intent on the use of classified documents as part of the defense.
A brief Monday filing from Trump attorneys Todd Blanche, Emil Bove, and Christopher Kise alerted U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon and the Special Counsel’s Office that they followed the jurist’s June 14 order and submitted their first notice under § 5(a) of the Classified Information Procedures Act, otherwise known as CIPA. The notice, the Trump team disclosed, was handed to the “Classified Information Security Officer in Fort Pierce, Florida.”
While the notice itself contains no public specificity as to which document or documents obtained through discovery are involved — it’s classified, after all — the filing shows that Trump lawyers will, either pretrial and/or during trial, use classified material as part of their defense.
Special counsel Jack Smith complained in April that the defense was dragging its feet and “must stop” pushing “reflexively” for “open-ended” delay in meeting the notice deadline that he called “crucial” for “getting the case to trial.” The special counsel also noted that the original deadlines had been set for November 2023.
Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-finally-files-crucial-notice-on-use-of-classified-material-as-part-of-mar-a-lago-defense/
Link to filed CIPA § 5(a) NOTICE (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.625.0.pdf
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If so, then there's that old bridge in Brooklyn up for sale.
News flash - this was NARA's jurisdiction and NARA did what NARA's procedures had set forth for requesting return of materials. And when they exhausted their own procedures' options, only THEN did they refer to DOJ who acted immediately on it.
THAT is how ALL regulatory agencies operate in the federal government.
The timeline I posted WAS during that "6 months to a year or more" timeframe that you cite. Literally starting right after he was sworn in. As it was, there were months of time wasted in court arguing about some kind of "Executive Privilege" that didn't exist.
But guaranteed that a "delay" would have been there for all that time.
The proof?
Note that Fani Willis was elected to D.A. in Fulton County GA in November of 2020 and assumed office Jan. 1, 2021. After the phone call to Raffesperger was revealed, she started her investigation in February 2021 -
By Danny Hakim and Richard Fausset
Published Feb. 13, 2021 | Updated July 6, 2022
After six weeks as a district attorney, Fani T. Willis is taking on a former president. And not just that. In an interview about her newly announced criminal investigation into election interference in Georgia, Ms. Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, made it clear that the scope of her inquiry would encompass the pressure campaign on state officials by former President Donald J. Trump as well as the activities of his allies.
“An investigation is like an onion,” she said. “You never know. You pull something back, and then you find something else.” She added, “Anything that is relevant to attempts to interfere with the Georgia election will be subject to review.”
Ms. Willis, whose jurisdiction encompasses much of Atlanta, has suddenly become a new player in the post-presidency of Mr. Trump. She will decide whether to bring criminal charges over Mr. Trump’s phone call to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, asking him to “find” votes to erase the former president’s loss there, and other efforts by Trump allies to overturn the election results. The severity of the legal threat to Mr. Trump is not yet clear, but Ms. Willis has started laying out some details about the inquiry.
She and her office have indicated that the investigation will include Senator Lindsey Graham’s phone call to Mr. Raffensperger in November about mail-in ballots; the abrupt removal last month of Byung J. Pak, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, who earned Mr. Trump’s enmity for not advancing his debunked assertions about election fraud; and the false claims that Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, made before state legislative committees.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/us/politics/fani-willis-trump.html
She and her staff began interviews through 2021 and then she had a special grand jury empaneled in early 2022, hauling people in throughout the rest of that year until they finished their report. A regular grand jury was then empaneled in 2023 to bring charges. And with that, she got indictments for 19 defendants including 45 in August 2023.
So where is that case now?
DELAYED.
It was started Feb. 10, 2021.
The only ones to nail his ass (not including E. Jean Carroll) were his hometown/home state prosecutors - Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg and NY AG Letitia James.
We will have to see what the SCOTUS says about the "immunity" thing. Many expect they won't allow "total immunity" but would send something back to a lower court to deal with what would be some kind of "limited immunity" for certain circumstances.
If that happens, Smith would have to work around that by dropping certain charges for either or both federal cases but whatever remains will probably go through the courts once more because 45 will claim those activities being charged should be covered under "limited immunity".
Wash. Rinse. Repeat. 
And in the GA case, it was expected that it would be broken up into smaller groupings for multiple trials once it gets shaken loose from the bullshit being leveled against Willis.
More like dipping a McNugget in barbecue sauce 
