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1/ The Core provision of the Classified Information Procedures Act requires a court, on the govt’s motion, to hold a pretrial hearing “to make all determinations concerning the use, relevance, or admissibility of classified information" ahead of trial.
2/ CIPA's requirement that the judge hold the hearing before trial is important. It means the gov't knows, before a jury is empaneled & double jeopardy attaches, what the cost in disclosure of classified materials will be.
3/CIPA gives the gov't the right to take an immediate, expedited appeal from an order to disclosure classified info, that denies the gov't a protective order keeping the defense from disclosing classified info & penalizing the retention of classified information.
4/If Judge Cannon runs afoul of CIPA, prosecutors will appeal her to the 11th Circuit. If she continues to put her thumbs on the scales of justice for the former president, she could not be reversed, the circuit court could direct that the case be reassigned to another judge.
5/Because the gov't will have to appeal any egregious mistakes the judge makes on CIPA matters, it's a prime opportunity to request reassignment without injecting any additional delay into the case. More about CIPA & all of this in my newsletter: joycevance.substack.com/p/handling-cla… 
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