Former President Donald Trump is alleging prosecutorial misconduct on the part of special counsel Jack Smith and the Biden administration in a motion to dismiss the classified documents case filed on May 21.
Alternatively, defense attorneys say the 15 boxes seized by the FBI during a raid on Mar-a-Lago should be excluded from evidence because of due process violations.
Prosecutors docketed their response the same day, saying this “narrative of bad-faith collusion” defense attorneys allege between the Justice Department, White House, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was “baseless.”
The filings are part of the latest batch of documents U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has ordered to be docketed publicly. Significant litigation in this case had previously been sealed, or filed privately, as the case involves classified information and prosecutors have insisted on following the strict process outlined in the Classified Information Protection Act….
