Courts and Classified Information

At a Friday pre-trial hearing in Greenbelt, Md., U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang pressed DOJ on its proposed seven‑month discovery schedule in John Bolton’s classified‑materials case, citing the Speedy Trial Act. The judge ordered a modified plan requiring the first tranche of 10 key documents by Jan. 12 and a joint status report, set a status conference for October 2026, and noted no trial date yet, as prosecutors and defense described the scope of materials including ~1,000 pages and several devices under filter review.