“The peanut gallery”: Experts say Cannon opened door to “unheard of” GOP intervention in Trump case

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2. “The main thing that [has] stood out to me is how she has constantly caused delay in the case instead of moving it forward,” Shira Scheindlin, a former federal judge, told NPR over the weekend. The second: “[S]he seems to have a visceral dislike of Jack Smith and his team. She’s constantly criticizing them. She’s constantly being sharp and sarcastic with them, and she almost never treats the defense that way.”

   Well yeah she’s bought and paid for by the defense.

3. All part of the plan.

4. Cannon is a young, inexperienced judge, but also a member of the Federalist Society. It’s that organization who is shepherding trump through his various cases, helping him slip away from justice, at least until after the election. Cannon is a member, and at least one of trump’s lawyers (Kise), as well as ALL of the conservative justices on SCOTUS.

   What we’re witnessing is a team trying to get their chosen candidate past the goal line, and Federalist Society stooges have infested the US Justice system – from lawyers to judges, including the highest court – so thoroughly, that even someone who stole classified intelligence, violated national security, with video and photographic evidence, can evade justice.

5. I feel like Democrats aren’t suing enough Republicans for no peaceful transfer of power.

6. Right wing Podcasters are gonna be defending him in court with made up conspiracy theories she’ll entertain as fact

7. we can’t rely on the courts alone to rid us of tfg. we must exorcise this miscreant at the polls in Nov.

8. She’s setting herself up for a lifelong career of headaches, every lawyer that comes before her could demand a mistrial due to her bias.

9. She doesn’t want to preside over this trial. Who would? If it leads to a guilty verdict, you have an angry cult/mob to worry about for the next 10 years. If it leads to a not guilty verdict, you get a raft of negative publicity and probably had to contort the law along the way… not a good look for a new judge. 

   Delay, and hope that the voters take it off your plate while isolating yourself from the notion that justice delayed is justice denied, especially in this case. 

   And if the public doesn’t re-elect Trump, then maybe then his cult will finally lose steam. Maybe. 

10. In a sane world, there world be an easy mechanism to remove a bad acting judge. Maybe there already is, but it’s not being used.

    This doesn’t seem to be a functional law system. I don’t even mean just favoritism. I mean actually non functional as in a judge can just personally interfer with a federal case involving what is technically espionage and treason, some of the most egregious acts one can take against a government. Despite this, one single judge can just kind of stop it dead at will with zero repercussions. It’s…uncanny. It implies the judicial system is a non functioning system.

    Why do I go as far as espionage and treason?

    I’m not sure how else you define willful access to and sale of government secrets to foreign nationalities, some of which we are not friends with. The acts he’s taken have clearly fallen under both scopes, even if his own reasoning was simple and petty like “make money” and “bragging.”. He would be classified as a spy based on what he’s done.

    Yet, here we are. Trump is a free man. The judicial system is doing nothing. And zero other people can do anything Trump has done without lifetime imprisonment or the death penalty. There certainly are prior cases of far lesser offenses implementing very serious punishments.

11. Cannon is corrupt. Let’s just say it like it is.

12. I’m not even a lawyer and this sounds insane and ridiculous. Imagine if you have a speeding ticket, and to dispute it, you say “judge I’m gonna bring in a bunch of random lawyers who for some reason are my fan base, and they’re gonna argue why this should be dismissed.” And then judge says “mmokay that sounds reasonable. Let’s spend six months hearing from them.”

13. Aileen definitely has [this song](https://youtu.be/x9L5K04VgkI?si=U6Y2LXNRJPdSKsZk) in her commute playlist 

14. She needs to be impeached.

15. Fuck Aileen Cannon. That is all.

16. If a million little sinister things are successful she becomes Chief Justice. Otherwise she’s a nobody. She’s playing the odds.

17. I don’t know how it works in federal court, but is it possible that she is trying to run out the clock so the speak? In state court, at least in my state, during status hearings etc the judge bills whats called “time” to either the prosecution or defense. It has to do with making sure the defendants right to a speedy trial isn’t violated.

18. Who will guard the guardians?

19. Have no fear, friends… Merrick Garland will surely- ah fuck it