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With US District Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision earlier this week to postpone Donald Trump’s classified documents trial indefinitely, the chance of a start date ahead of the November election has become more unlikely. Newsweek noted that the Trump-appointed judge said in her Tuesday, May 7 ruling that “there were eight outstanding substantive pending motions for her to rule on and predicted this will take until at least late July.” Legal expert and Brookings senior fellow Norm Eisen criticized Cannon’s ruling, saying, “I’m not surprised, but I am disgusted. Whether she’s doing it out of partia…

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