Trump’s Motion to Dismiss Mar-a-Lago Case Fails, But ‘Vague’ Defense Lives On

Donald Trump failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss the entire Mar-a-Lago case on the notion that the nation’s restrictions on classified documents are simply too vague to be used against him for hoarding government documents at his South Florida mansion.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon—a Trump appointee who has thus far delayed the case and swung it wildly in his favor—rejected the former president’s request to kill off the Department of Justice investigation on that point alone.

But her decision doesn’t exactly settle the matter. Cannon merely closed a door while opening another one, allowing Trump to potentially raise the same arguments later on in the case and possibly at trial.

Read more at The Daily Beast.