If Aileen Cannon excludes even some of Trump’s former lawyer’s memos, it could gut some of the most incriminating evidence against him

The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s prosecution for retaining classified documents on Thursday ruled that she would schedule a hearing to weigh excluding key evidence that forms the backbone of the obstruction-of-justice part of the case against the former president.

The US district judge Aileen Cannon said she would hold an evidentiary hearing to revisit another judge’s decision to allow prosecutors to access damaging memos, made by the ex-Trump lawyer Evan Corcoran, under what is known as the crime-fraud exception.

Aileen Cannon again reprimanded one of the special counsel lawyers – could it become a problem for their case?

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The tense interactions between judge Aileen Cannon and special counsel prosecutors in Donald Trump’s case over retaining classified documents came to a head this week when she again reprimanded one of the lead prosecutors on Monday for his tone.