Judge Cannon jumpstarts oversight of Trump classified documents case with order on security clearances

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🗓️ 16 June 2023

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The U.S. District judge who will oversee the trial of former President Trump issued her first order since he pleaded not guilty to 37 charges related to alleged mishandling of classified documents. Judge Aileen Cannon gave “all attorneys of record and forthcoming attorneys of record” a Friday deadline for getting in touch with the Justice Department’s litigation security group so that they can expedite “the necessary clearance process.” Former federal prosecutor Nick Akerman tells AC360 why he thinks the concerns about Judge Cannon’s impartiality are overblown.

Plus, former Senior Adviser to Pres. Obama David Axelrod sat down with his former boss on his “Axe Files” podcast to talk about the state of the Republican party and race in America.

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0:00.0	A judge some feared might slow-walk the Trump case, kick-starts it instead.
0:07.2	John Berman here in Foranderson.
0:09.4	Tonight on 360, how federal judge Eileen Cannon just got the documents case moving, and
0:14.7	why one veteran prosecutor now argues against casting judgment on her ability to be impartial
0:20.4	toward the man who appointed her.
0:22.8	Also tonight, another federal judge in another case against the former president makes it
0:27.2	official.
0:28.2	Eugene Carroll's defamation lawsuit goes to court just as primary season begins.
0:34.1	Plus, a CNN exclusive you will meet Ukraine's drone warriors as a 3D print machinery
0:40.2	to send Russian shells back where they came from with a bang.
0:44.3	We begin with what came as a surprise to some judge Eileen Cannon's first order in
0:49.3	her new position overseeing the documents case, a surprise because during her first encounter
0:54.1	with it shortly after the search of Mar-a-Lago, she issued a ruling so untethered in case
0:59.2	law and so favorable to the former president, a federal appeals panel overturned her in
1:04.6	a decision that read more like a legal scolding.
1:08.4	Two of the judges on that panel, by the way, were like her, Trump appointees.
1:13.2	That was the backdrop to today's ruling.
1:15.6	See, as Paul Rejoins us now with more on what is in this issue from the judge, Paula,
1:22.0	what can you tell us?
1:23.2	Well, this is the first time we've heard from Judge Eileen Cannon since Trump's
1:26.7	arrangement earlier this week.
1:28.3	And look, this is just a mundane scheduling order.
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