This image, contained in the indictment against Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. The proceeding, which lasted more than an hour and a half, was about Trump’s efforts to dismiss the indictment against him based on the claim that special counsel Jack Smith’s office was improperly funded.
the pending argument over a new gag order is just the latest example of how the criminal justice process has been used unfairly against Trump. He said the public should know whether Attorney General Merrick Garland signed off on the request. In a separate hearing Friday on the constitutionality of the special counsel appointment, Bove argued that Smith had too much independence and said his appointment should have been approved by the Senate.
in other cases. Before becoming a judge, Cannon was a prosecutor who worked on appellate issues, and long stretches of Monday’s hearing sounded more like an argument before an appeals court than a trial court.