Special counsel Jack Smith‘s frustrations with the Florida federal judge in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump hit a new level this week after both appeared to chide each other in court filings.
Tensions came to a head this week in a Tuesday night court filing in which Smith’s team of prosecutors rebuked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon after she showed a willingness to entertain a theory that Trump has posited in a bid to dismiss his case. Smith’s team called that theory “pure fiction” and signaled he might seek redress from a higher court in response to any adverse decision, in addition to asking her to move quickly in her decision process to prevent her from defanging the prosecution just before an eventual trial.
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