Citing immunity ruling, Trump legal team asks to pause docs case

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was asked Friday by lawyers representing Donald Trump to partially pause the government’s classified documents case against the former president so she can decide how the U.S. Supreme Court’s new ruling on presidential immunity might apply to the proceedings. (U.S. SENATE TELEVISION/CNP/ZUMA PRESS/TNS)
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was asked Friday by lawyers representing Donald Trump to partially pause the government’s classified documents case against the former president so she can decide how the U.S. Supreme Court’s new ruling on presidential immunity might apply to the proceedings. (U.S. SENATE TELEVISION/CNP/ZUMA PRESS/TNS)

By David Lyons

South Florida Sun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE  — As legal observers predicted, Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for a partial pause of the government’…