Former Judge’s former employee who launched Trump’s classified documents now in the high -level DOJ position

A former legal secretary of the federal judge who dismissed the case of documents classified against President Donald Trump, is now serving in the Department of Justice directly under the former defense lawyer of Trump, Todd Blanche, who now serves as the number of Law number two of the Nation.

Christopher-James Delorenz has been serving as a lawyer in the deputy attorney general’s office since President Trump took office in January, according to officials and LinkedIn’s public page of Delorenz.

Delorenz served for 10 months as a legal secretary for the United States District Judge, Aileen Cannon, during a period in which he presided over Trump Trump’s prosecution on the special lawyer Jack Smith for claiming that retaining documents classified after leaving the White House and obstructing the government’s efforts to recover them.

According to his LinkedIn page, Delorenz left the Cannon office in August 2024, only one month after Cannon dismissed the case against Trump, in which he won decades of legal precedents when he discovered that Smith had been unconstitutionally appointed.

It is not clear if Blanche, who was Trump’s main lawyer in the case of classified documents and assumed the position at the beginning of last month after a limited confirmation of the United States Senate, had some direct participation in the hiring of Delorenz.

Trump has already been the staff of the elderly of the Department of Justice with lawyers who previously represented him in a variety of criminal and civil issues, as part of a broader effort to reaffirm the control over an department that brought two criminal prosecutions against him after he left office in 2021.

While being subject to a district judge is often a path to a superior job in an administration, Delorenz’s position is the first known appointment for the Department of Justice of a former employee of Judge Cannon, whose dismissal of the case of documents gave Trump a massive political victory.

Cannon, who was nominated for the bench by Trump in 2020, was criticized by numerous legal experts for several decisions that helped support Trump’s lawyers strategy to delay the case in the trial.

Neither Judge Cannon’s cameras nor the Department of Justice immediately responded to a request for ABC News comments.

Cannon previously responded to the accusations of giving Trump a favorable treatment in an order that denied a request for her to challenge the criminal case of Ryan Routh, who was accused of trying to kill Trump in her golf club in Florida in September last year.

“I have never spoken or known to former President Trump, except in relation to his presence required in an official judicial procedure, through a lawyer,” Cannon wrote in an October 2024 ruling.

“I have no relationship with [Trump]’In any reasonable sense of the phrase. I follow my oath to administer faithful and impartially justice, in accordance with the Constitution and the laws of this country, “he wrote.