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U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is letting former President Donald Trump’s classified documents trial get bogged down in debates and issues that no reasonable judge would have to devote this much time and energy to, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal told MSNBC’s Joy Reid on Monday evening. This comes after Cannon held a hearing on whether to remove or defund special counsel Jack Smith from the case altogether — an idea she seemed to be skeptical of, but that was highly unusual for her to even devote a hearing to in the first place. “Please tell us how unusual was it for this hearin…

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