Former clerk for judge who tossed Trump's classified docs case now in senior DOJ position
Source: ABC News
April 7, 2025, 2:45 PM
A former law clerk to the federal judge who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump's former defense lawyer Todd Blanche, who is now serving as the nation's number-two law enforcement official.
Christopher-James DeLorenz has been serving as a Counsel in the Deputy Attorney General's office since President Trump took office in January, according to officials and DeLorenz's public LinkedIn page.
DeLorenz served for 10 months as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, during a period in which she presided over then-special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump for alleging retaining classified documents after leaving the White House and obstructing the government's efforts to retrieve them.
According to his LinkedIn page, DeLorenz departed Cannon's office in August 2024, just a month after Cannon tossed out the case against Trump, in which she bucked decades of legal precedent by finding that Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed.
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