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Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the federal criminal case goes to a jury.
No, the President can’t just declassify ANY document with the stroke of a pen. Extremely sensitive information, for example nuclear weapons technology, has to be subjected to bureaucratic review process to determine what can actually be declassified, or not.
But none of that is relevant to this situation, so it wouldn’t solve it. Judge Cannon would simply generate additional reasons to delay the trial.
No, the President can’t just declassify ANY document with the stroke of a pen. Extremely sensitive information, for example nuclear weapons technology, has to be subjected to bureaucratic review process to determine what can actually be declassified, or not.
But none of that is relevant to this situation, so it wouldn’t solve it. Judge Cannon would simply generate additional reasons to delay the trial.