{"id":2217033,"date":"2024-04-09T22:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T22:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:58:40","slug":"judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Cannon has consented to redact witness identities in the Trump classified documents trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-cannon-agrees-to-hide-witness-names-in-trump-classified-documents-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2217033&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>U.S.\u2063 District Court Judge Aileen Cannon supported special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s plea to shield witness identities in the classified\u2064 documents\u2063 case involving former President Donald Trump. This ruling concludes a lengthy legal battle \u2062prompted by concerns over the witnesses&#8217; safety if their names were disclosed. The decision prevents the exposure of witness identities \u2062that could have\u200d been included in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-senate-candidate-sean-parnell-suspends-campaign-after-custody-loss-im-devastated-by-court-decision\/\" title=\"Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Sean Parnell Suspends Campaign After Custody Loss: \u2018I'm Devastated by\u2019 Court Decision\">public court records<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon ruled in favor of special counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jack-smith\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jack Smith's\">Jack Smith\u2019s<\/a> request to hide the names of witnesses involved in former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Jack Smith's\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-reject-trump-request-in-fbi-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump Request in FBI Classified Documents Case\">classified documents case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks the end of a monthslong saga after Smith argued that the release of the names could expose them to danger. The identities of many witnesses would have been revealed if Trump was cleared to attach discovery evidence about the witnesses on the public court docket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat discovery material, if publicly docketed in unredacted form as the Court has ordered, would disclose the identities of numerous potential witnesses, along with the substance of the statements they made to the FBI or the grand jury, exposing them to significant and immediate risks of threats, intimidation, and harassment,\u201d prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2847293\/smith-seeks-block-witness-identities-trump-documents-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"argued\">argued<\/a> in a 22-page February filing.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses Smith has been seeking to protect include FBI agents, Secret Service agents, and others.<\/p>\n<p>Though siding with Smith, Cannon also criticized him in her 24-page ruling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/documents\/806f8fa1-7bc2-4e54-9197-1177c898059e.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"obtained by\">obtained by<\/a> the <em>Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Special Counsel\u2019s request remains sweeping in nature as applied to all potential government witnesses without differentiation \u2026 the Court is satisfied that the Special Counsel has made an adequate showing on this issue\u201d for now, Cannon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, elsewhere in the ruling, she criticized the special counsel for an inadequate response to a group of press outlets looking to make all the information in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-joe-biden-calls-george-floyds-family-as-jury-deliberates-says-he-hopes-everything-will-come-out-ok\/\" title=\"President Joe Biden Calls George Floyd\u2019s Family As Jury Deliberates, Says He Hopes \u2018Everything Will Come Out OK\u2019\">case public<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Special Counsel\u2019s response did not object to the Press Coalition\u2019s invocation of First Amendment principles, did not meaningfully engage with any of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-interest-in-big-tech-regulation-grows-on-both-sides\/\" title=\"Senate Interest in Big Tech Regulation Grows on Both Sides\">legal standards<\/a>, and did not offer any additional factual support,\u201d Cannon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The next move in the case is to decide the trial date. Smith\u2019s team has urged it to begin as soon as possible, while Trump\u2019s team seeks to push it back.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon sided with special counsel Jack Smith, granting the request to conceal witness names in the classified documents case of former President Donald Trump. This conclusion follows a lengthy legal battle prompted by Smith&#8217;s concerns over potential risks to the witnesses if their identities were revealed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2217034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-05-Apr-2024-11-22-AM-2166-1024x594.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/MixCollage-05-Apr-2024-11-22-AM-2166-1024x594.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}