Donald Trump on Thursday asked Judge Cannon to toss several classified docs counts on presidential immunity grounds, arguing that the former president was cleared by the Presidential Records Act to keep the records.
Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted the ex-president as well as some of his own employees for unlawfully keeping certain classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago country club, even after authorities sought to retrieve them via a lawful subpoena. Trump has consistently claimed he had the right to keep those documents, and one of his co-defendants sought to be dismissed from the case earlier on Thursday.
In a suit rife with allegations of judicial bias, Trump has now moved to dismiss the entire case.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported, "Trump's team has just filed a motion (several, actually) to dismiss the classified documents case in Florida, citing, in part, presidential immunity."
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"In addition to President Trump’s constitutional authority and DOJ’s established practices prior to this case, presidential discretion to designate records as personal under the PRA adds additional ambiguity for the reasons set forth in President Trump’s motion to dismiss based on the PRA," attorneys for the former president wrote in one of the Thursday filings.
In a separate filing, Trump sought to dismiss the counts against him for purportedly being unconstitutionally vague.
"Section 793(e) is unconstitutionally vague as applied to President Trump—a former President operating within the framework of the Presidential Records Act ('PRA'), who (1) acted as the ultimate Original Classification Authority based on Article II of the Constitution and under Executive Order 13526, (2) has recourse to the executive privilege, and (3) is entitled to immunity for his official acts," that filing states.
You can read the presidential immunity filing at this link.
