2/ Order:

Court "determines that finalization of a trial date at this juncture—before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and CIPA issues remaining and forthcoming—would be imprudent and inconsistent with the court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions before the court.."

3/ Emptywheel:

Trump appointee bows to Trump demands, delays accountability for stealing nuclear documents.

4/ Roger Parloff:

She also resets the pretrial schedule. CIPA § 5 is now scheduled for 6/17, the date Trump had originally asked for back on 2/29. https://documentcloud.org/documents/24654053-530-new-schedule…

5/ Lisa Rubin:

With 13 days before her trial was supposed to kick off, Judge Cannon finally says what has been obvious to every legal journalist I know: She’s not just canceling the existing trial date; she’s also not picking a replacement.

6/ Folks, the courts were never going to save us. But now we can see what happens when justice is snatched away so easily.

We have to do everything to win in November. And of course, still try to take Trump down in the meantime.

Judge Cannon's move today is infuriating, but completely expected.

Now it's Smith's turn to take the fight to her. Here's a helpful explainer on how he can ask to have her replaced; the difficulty (but not impossibility!) he'll face in doing so; and why, in light of the Constitution's double jeopardy clause, it's absolutely vital that he move to DQ her now: thebulwark.com/p/what-it-would…

Here’s What It Would Look Like to Remove Judge Cannon

Plus: The actions she could take if she were determined to kill off the classified documents case against Donald Trump.

^{Philip Rotner (The Bulwark)}