RAWSTORY
Now that there a firm court date has been set for Donald Trump’s criminal case centered on hush-money payments made to adult movie star Stormy Daniels, the ex-president has all four of his criminal cases moving in earnest — and he has some key deadlines coming up this week.
The first comes on Tuesday, when the “motion for leave to file” is due in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
Earlier this month, Trump and his co-defendants demanded documents from the government that they say support a claim of “vindictive prosecution” — a demand that special counsel Jack Smith said in a recent filing that his team is under no obligation to fulfill.
In particular, Smith’s filing alleges that since Trump hasn’t even proposed “the argument or factual assertions not presented in an opening motion and raised for the first time in a reply brief are not properly before the Court,” then “the Court should not be asked [to] decide matters that have been neither properly raised nor fully briefed.”
Regardless, Trump’s team on Tuesday must file all of their final motions or documents before the judge rules about the matter.
