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Either “a jury is permitted to examine” every record a former president swipes and claims as “personal” to determine whether it is, or jurors must be told that “a president has sole authority… to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency.”

Can't categorize files as personal after you vacate office. Classified files are by law government property and cannot be owned by anyone. Can't declassify files after leaving office.

This hack needs to be impeached and this trial appealed and the judge replaced posthaste.

Grounds to have her replaced? Most people know that top secret means security clearance.

Trump's lawyers got the prosecutor on another case fired for going on a date and we keep putting up with this woman????

It's unprecedented. I know what the supporters would say "so is prosecuting an ex president ". There's a difference. A fast food CEO killing a dozen people and serving them up in 15 different locations is unprecedented. A judge wouldn't say that the jury has to try the burgers though.

This ignorance alone should get her removed from the case. Dear Lord. There are laws and rules for how classified information must be handled. Wtf?

I can only hope that the DOJ is investigating her for corruption.

Can she really do that, force the jury without security clearance to view top secret documents? Seems bullshit to me.

But what are the options? Obviously she says to let Trump go if the jury can't see the docs. If he gets the jury see the docs, do they have to get security clearance? They have to sign an NDA of some sort?

Well, can't say she's not effective. The case made it past the election.

Showing TOP SECRET and HIGHER documents to random people on the street HELPS American National Security!

I sort of think that showing them the secrets would actively harm Trump because it would become obvious just how dangerous the material is. I don't think she's really thought this thing through.

I think this might get her thrown off the case

Maybe they should move the case to DC then so there are enough active Top Secret clearances to create a healthy jury pool.

Could this be the first judge to go to jail for Trump?

Wasn’t this one of the main reasons for delaying the case to begin with? They had the “special examiner” review all the files to verify they were indeed top secret. I don’t understand why that person can’t just provide a summary to the jury. Letting them see the files seems like massive judicial overreach and probably illegal. Can she be disbarred for this?

Jury selection will take forever… Step 1, reject everybody without a security clearance…

I truly underestimated how deep the movement that's using Trump's cult of personality for its own means runs.

We're so very fucked.

Unfortunately we're too close to the election at this point. I don't see any case that isn't just a monetary settlement being delt with before he takes office and makes his DOJ dog wipe it all away....