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Judge Narrows Access to Classified Evidence in Trump Docs Case
On September 13, 2023, a federal judge entered a protective order in the classified-documents case that limited who can see sensitive material and required secure handling of it.
Edition · September 13, 2023
Trump’s Legal Week Keeps Forking Itself
A protective order, a recusal bid, and a fresh pile of courtroom trouble kept the former president’s September 13 from looking much like a winning campaign day.
On September 13, 2023, Trump’s legal problems kept metastasizing in public: a federal judge in the classified-documents case tightened the screws with a protective order, while his team kept pressing attacks on the judge in the election-interference case. It was not a single apocalypse, but it was the kind of day that reminded everyone the courtroom is still his least cooperative campaign trail.
Closing take
The pattern here is simple: Trump keeps trying to campaign through his prosecutions, and the prosecutions keep refusing to play along. That’s not just embarrassing; it’s increasingly the shape of the 2024 race.
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Trump Keeps Attacking the Judge, and It Is Not Helping
Trump’s team continued pressing for Judge Tanya Chutkan’s recusal in the federal election-interference case, a move that keeps spotlighting the very record he would rather bury.