Keeping up with Donald Trump’s court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial in Georgia, and two separate civil and criminal trials in New York. (Oh, and he’s running for president.) To make it easier to follow along, we’re rounding up all the Trump trial–related developments you might have missed the previous week.

This week, as Donald Trump’s hush money trial begins winding down in New York, newly unsealed court documents are adding a new wrinkle to the former president’s stalled classified documents case: He was even keeping classified documents in his bedroom. Plus: Jack Smith tried seeking a gag order after Trump made some truly unhinged claims, but Judge Aileen Cannon wasn’t having it; an appeals court battle is brewing in Georgia; and E. Jean Carroll considers whether to file yet another defamation lawsuit.

A newly unsealed court opinion revealed that Trump didn’t just keep court documents next to his toilet—there were four documents labeled as “classified” in his bedroom, too.

When the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in 2022, they found boxes brimming with classified documents inside a public restroom, on a ballroom stage, and inside a storage room. Last week, an opinion issued in 2023 by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, who presided over the grand jury proceedings that fueled special counsel Jack Smith’s eventual indictment, said an additional four documents were found in Trump’s bedroom, months after the FBI searched the property. “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom,” wrote Howell.

Howell also said the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago multiple times in 2022 after Trump........

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