Prosecutors said the former president’s defense team was trying to use an arcane law to derail the scheduled start of his trial on charges of mishandling classified material and obstructing justice.
Judge Aileen Cannon’s order did not specify where the former president could discuss the classified material or directly address his request that it be at Mar-a-Lago.
Federal prosecutors described the shift in a court filing that highlighted conflicts of interest in the overlapping legal representation of witnesses and defendants in the case.
The arguments in the classified documents case stem from the government’s attempts to put a protective order in place governing the handling of a trove of discovery materials.