According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, the judge in Donald Trump's classified documents case appears to be running out the clock for the former president by not issuing a key ruling.
Reacting to a blockbuster report from ABC that a former Donald Trump aide accused him of using the backs of sensitive government documents to take notes on as a scratch pad, Vance noted on her Substack platform that the Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon has been silent about addressing the Department of Justice's request for a hearing on lawyer conflict of interest issues.
The so-called Garcia hearing is related to attorney Stanley Woodward, Jr. representing Trump aide Walt Nauta after previously representing the person identified in the special counsel Jack Smith's indictment as “Trump Employee 4,” now named as Mar-a-Lago IT director Yucil Taveras.
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According to Vance, the new revelations from ABC are a reminder that Cannon has yet to move the case forward and raises questions over whether she will allow the DOJ to "put all of its evidence in front of a jury."
Vance wrote, "The only real issue in this case is whether the Judge will proceed promptly to trial without entertaining unreasonable delays from Trump," before she took a shot at Cannon with, "We’re still waiting to see if she will ever respond to the government’s request for a Garcia hearing to resolve issues about potential conflicts of interest between Trump’s co-defendants and their lawyers, which the judge continues to sit on."
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