Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html
Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Aside
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html
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Of course she did. Her sole purpose in this case is to delay a verdict to assist Trump. It’s an in-kind contribution to his campaign.
But if she did that, she would not be able to lead Trumps defense like she is now.
Well yeah how else is she gonna get paid??
Translation: Judge Qannon capitulated to far right demands not to budge from case
MAGA’s have no shame.
Of course she refused The traitor had every intention of rigging the trial for her hero the convicted felon and rapist
Absolutely fucking ridiculous. Where is the fucking oversight?? I can’t believe I forgot that she had overstep her legal boundaries at the beginning of the case and was stopped by a committee including Trump conservatives. How is she still able to hold onto this case? Fucking sickening. I’m tired of the corruption in this government.
Because it was “suggested” when she should have been “told” and “made to” step aside.
Someone somewhere has receipts for this one and I wish they’d share them already.
History will remember
Color me shocked. Either intentional malice to subvert justice or just a shocking display of ignorance and lack of judgement. Both are equally bad for a functional democracy.
Of course she did. If she stepped aside she couldn’t fulfill her mission to sabotage this trial.
She’s not going to step aside. Everything she is doing is intentional and working as designed. This is why she only issues paperless orders. It’s so that Jack Smith cannot take them to the 11th circuit and have her thrown off the case.
Ignoring her acts of impropriety, she has zero experience. This case is far to large for her to handle even if she did things by the book.
Fuck it, 5 bucks to anyone who can dig up proof of her communicating with Trumps law team.
Why would she step aside? She is the only effective member of Trump’s defense team.
Presumably Altonaga, as Chief of that District, or staff she administers oversees the process by which cases are assigned. In retrospect it appears she should have quietly “bumped the table” on the dice roll that landed this one with Cannon.
It’s so blatantly obvious how corrupt this all is. I am so tired of the right just steamrolling through things. They only get away with this because people allow it.
She was asked to step aside, and didn’t. What skin does she have in the game, what reason does she have to stay on the case? If she’s not personally invested, whats the reason to continue? It’s so clearly obvious.
Incompetent and corrupt judge being controlled by maga.
This is why you don’t ask. You tell. Remove her from the case. The end.
There is something very wrong with the fact that a compromised judge like Cannon can be asked to step aside and just get to reply “lol no”, despite a clear conflict of interest. US government infrastructure clearly was not created with a chaos agent like Trump in mind.
The Republicans want Judge Merchan to step aside, because he donated $35 to Biden’s campaign in 2016. Apparently he’s completely compromised.
But Cannon, who was *appointed by Trump* and capitulates to his every whim, is totally kosher. No issues there…
> She has broken, according to lawyers who operate there, with a general practice of federal judges in the Southern District of Florida of delegating some pretrial motions to a magistrate — in this instance, Judge Bruce E. Reinhart. While he is subordinate to her, Judge Reinhart is an older and much more experienced jurist. In 2022, he was the one who signed off on an F.B.I. warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club and residence in Florida, for highly sensitive government files that Mr. Trump kept after leaving office.
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> Since then, Judge Cannon has exhibited hostility to prosecutors, handled pretrial motions slowly and indefinitely postponed the trial, declining to set a date for it to begin even though both the prosecution and the defense had told her they could be ready to start this summer.
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> But Mr. Trump’s lawyers have also urged her to delay any trial until after the election, and her handling of the case has virtually ensured that they will succeed in that strategy. Should Mr. Trump retake the White House, he could order the Justice Department to drop the case.
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> As Judge Cannon’s handling of the case has come under intensifying scrutiny, her critics have suggested that **she could be in over her head, in the tank for Mr. Trump — or both.** (emphasis added)
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> In August 2022, the F.B.I. obtained a search warrant from Judge Reinhart to go to Mar-a-Lago to hunt for any remaining classified documents that Mr. Trump had failed to turn over after receiving a subpoena for them.
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>The agents found thousands of government files that Mr. Trump had kept, even though under the Presidential Records Act they should have gone to the National Archives when he left office. The files the F.B.I. recovered included over 100 marked as classified, including some at the most highly restricted level.
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>Soon after the search, Mr. Trump filed a lawsuit against the government protesting the seizure of the materials, which he claimed were his personal property, and asking for a special master to be appointed to sift through them. Rather than letting Judge Reinhart handle that lawsuit, as would be the normal procedure, Judge Cannon chose to decide the matter.
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>Shocking legal experts across ideological lines, she barred investigators from gaining access to the evidence and appointed a special master, although she said that person would only make recommendations to her and she would make the final decisions.
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> Judge Cannon’s decision was unusual in part because she intervened before there were any charges — treating Mr. Trump differently from typical targets of search warrants based on his supposed special status as a former president.
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>She also directed the special master to consider whether some of the seized files should be permanently kept from investigators under executive privilege, a notion that was widely seen as dubious since it has never successfully been made in a criminal case.
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>Prosecutors appealed to the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta. In a repudiation, a three-judge panel that included two Trump appointees reversed her order and ruled that she never had legal authority to intervene in the first place.
I’m so sick of seeing that same picture of her face over and over. 🤢
Throw away your entire profession for a pos liar/felon. Unreal.
I have evaluated my accusations of wrongdoing and determined I have done nothing wrong.