Judge Aileen Cannon, the U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Florida presiding over Donald Trump's classified documents case, granted on Monday special counsel Jack Smith's request to schedule hearings inspecting potential conflicts of interest for two Trump attorneys representing Trump's co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.
As The Guardian reports, the decision follows the Justice Department's complaints about Trump's offer to pay for the legal counsel of those implicated in his legal battles and comes after the department warned Cannon that the two lawyers — Stanley Woodward and John Irving, who represent Nauta and De Oliveira, respectively — are also working for other clients who could be called as witnesses against the two defendants.
