Judge Cancels Trumps May Trial Date    05/08 06:02

   The federal judge in Florida presiding over the classified documents 
prosecution of former President Donald Trump has canceled the May 20 trial 
date, postponing it indefinitely.

   WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal judge in Florida presiding over the 
classified documents prosecution of former President Donald Trump has canceled 
the May 20 trial date, postponing it indefinitely.

   The order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had been expected in light 
of still-unresolved issues in the case and because Trump is currently on trial 
in a separate case in Manhattan charging him in connection with hush money 
payments during the 2016 presidential election. The New York case involves 
several of the same lawyers representing him in the federal case in Florida.

   Cannon said in a five-page order Tuesday that it would be "imprudent" to 
finalize a new trial date now, casting further doubt on federal prosecutors' 
ability to bring Trump to trial before the November presidential election.

   Trump faces dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally hoarding at 
his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida classified documents that he took 
with him after he left the White House in 2021, and then obstructing the FBI's 
efforts to get them back. He has pleaded not guilty and denied wrongdoing.

   Trump faces four criminal cases as he seeks to reclaim the White House, but 
outside of the New York prosecution, it's not clear that any of the other three 
will reach trial before the election.

   The Supreme Court is weighing Trump's arguments that he is immune from 
federal prosecution in a separate case from special counsel Jack Smith charging 
him with plotting to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Prosecutors in 
Fulton County, Georgia have also brought a separate case related to election 
subversion, though it's not clear when that might reach trial.