Which specific court dates are scheduled in the Jack Smith classified‑documents case as of January 2026?

1. The core legal status: dismissal, not a pending trial date

The central fact driving the calendar is that Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified‑documents indictment in July 2024, a ruling widely reported and repeatedly cited in summaries of the prosecutions, meaning the case was not on an active trial calendar as of January 2026 ^{[1] [2]}. Because that dismissal removed the underlying indictment, the normal consequence is there is no immediate trial date unless prosecutors successfully obtain reinstatement on appeal or re‑indict, and the sources collected do not report any such reinstatement or new scheduling as of January 2026 ^{[1] [2]}.

2. What was on the docket instead: injunctions and sealed material fights

Rather than trial scheduling, the docket through late 2025 and into January 2026 was dominated by litigation over whether to release Special Counsel Smith’s report and related materials — a procedural, civil‑litigation and records dispute in front of Judge Cannon and the 11th Circuit that produced deadline references but not a criminal trial date. The Knight First Amendment Institute’s attempt to compel release, the 11th Circuit’s involvement, and the mention of a court‑set window expected to expire on January 2, 2026, are concrete calendar markers in the record, but they concern the disclosure injunction and not a criminal trial schedule ^{[3] [4]}.

3. House testimony and public hearings — not criminal court dates

Reporting contemporaneous to January 2026 focused heavily on Smith’s public testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, which was scheduled for January 22, 2026; that is a congressional hearing date and not a court calendar item in the criminal prosecution ^{[5] [6] [7]}. Multiple outlets note Smith’s readiness to testify publicly after a closed‑door deposition, and Congress’s release of the deposition transcript, but those are oversight proceedings rather than judicial proceedings in the Mar‑a‑Lago criminal matter ^{[5] [8]}.

4. What the reporting does not show — no listed court hearings or future trial dates

Across the collected sources there is no authoritative report of any scheduled criminal‑court hearings, status conferences, retrial dates, or re‑indictments in the classified‑documents matter as of January 2026; where reporting mentions dates, they relate either to the report‑release litigation timeline or to congressional testimony, not to a revived criminal trial schedule ^{[3] [4] [5]}. If prosecutors had obtained a reinstatement of charges, or if a court had set a new schedule, national outlets and court‑watchers would likely have reported it; the absence of such reporting in the materials provided is itself the basis for concluding no court dates were scheduled in the criminal case as of January 2026 ^{[1] [2]}.

5. Alternative possibilities and caveats in the record

It remains possible, and the sources indicate potential avenues, that appellate rulings or further filings could reopen scheduling — for example, if the 11th Circuit or another court ordered relief or if DOJ pursued new indictments — but the provided reporting through mid‑January 2026 records no such action or court dates ^{[3] [2]}. The coverage instead emphasizes the political and procedural aftershocks — sealed report battles, testimony to Congress, commentary on prosecutorial decisions — underscoring that the criminal case, as reported, had no live trial calendar at that moment ^{[8] [9] [10]}.