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Mar-a-Lago judge refuses to dismiss indictment against Trump

Left: Special Counsel Jack Smith. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)/Center: In this image from video provided by the U.S. Senate, Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020./Right: Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Left: Special Counsel Jack Smith. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File); Center: Judge Aileen M. Cannon (U.S. Senate); Right: Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File).

A federal judge late Thursday declined to dismiss former President Donald Trump’s charges in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The terse, two-page order by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon rejects arguments by the 45th president’s attorneys that the first 32 counts in the superseding indictment are “constitutionally vague.”

“Although the Motion raises various arguments warranting serious consideration, the Court ultimately determines, following lengthy oral argument, that resolution of the overall question presented depends too greatly on contested instructional questions about still-fluctuating definitions of statutory terms/phrases as charged, along with at least some disputed factual issues as raised in the Motion,” Cannon wrote.

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