The federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's classified documents case denied special counsel Jack Smith's request for a protective order governing the use of classified documents for now.
Attorneys for the Justice Department had sought for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to impose a protective order over the classified documents at issue in the case during a Classified Information Procedures Act, or CIPA, hearing on Tuesday. Cannon denied the request"for lack of meaningful conferral," according to a paperless filing on Tuesday.
"Very odd to deny the motion vs requiring defense counsel to articulate objections," former national security official Brandon Van Grack tweeted on Wednesday. DOJ attorneys sought to confer with the Trump legal team last week and over the weekend and did not receive responses to multiple requests from defense lawyers at the time.
The Tuesday hearing in Fort Pierce, Florida, was mostly procedural and concerned the necessary process for handling classified documents in public trials under CIPA.
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