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Judge Aileen Cannon appears to be inviting a future jury to pore over Donald Trump’s seized classified materials — despite them being national secrets — while putting constraints on her own duties. In her most recent filing Monday, Cannon also wants to task jurors with figuring out if the former president can rightfully consider the documents as his personal property — a claim she is supposed to be deciding after he used it as an argument for his case to be dismissed. “In prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents,” her filing says, “… a jury is permitted to examine …

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