Special Counsel Jack Smith has criticized Judge Aileen Cannon's approach to the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump, calling it "fundamentally flawed" in recent court filings. Smith's team is pushing back against the judge's request for jury instructions that might align with Trump's defense that he had wide authority to designate government documents as personal or presidential under the Presidential Records Act. Prosecutors argue that the PRA does not apply to the charges against Trump, as they pertain to his conduct after leaving office. They allege that the classification of documents as personal was an afterthought following their retrieval from Mar-a-Lago.
