Senior Judges Advised Aileen Cannon to Pass on Trump Docs Case: Report
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aileen-cannon-advised-pass-trump-docs-case-1235043491/
Senior Judges Advised Aileen Cannon to Pass on Trump Docs Case: Report
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/aileen-cannon-advised-pass-trump-docs-case-1235043491/
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Every accusation is an admission.
The game is always rigged with Trump, because he is used to rigging the game.
I would like to see Cannon fired.
Thank you, thank you. I’ll show myself out.
From the article:
>FLORIDA DISTRICT COURT Judge [Aileen Cannon](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/aileen-cannon/)’s handling of [Donald Trump](https://www.rollingstone.com/t/donald-trump/)’s classified documents case — and her perceived favoritism towards the former president — has been under a wave of national scrutiny for some time now. According to a [report from *The* *New York Times*](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1E0.Btdm.GPEBpCPuh_wg)*,* the growing ethical questions could have been avoided had Cannon heeded the advice of senior judges in the Southern District of Florida, who counseled her to pass the case to a more experienced judge.
>According to the *Times*, when Cannon drew the case in 2023 two judges, including Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga and a second unidentified judge, advised her against accepting the assignment. The unidentified judge told Cannon that her home courthouse in Fort Piece was a considerable distance from Miami, and lacked the secure facilities needed to store many of the classified evidentiary documents related to the case.
>Altonaga took a much more direct approach, reportedly telling Cannon that her oversight of the case would be compromised by past controversy relating to her treatment of Trump’s legal issues. Specifically, Cannon’s controversial 2022 decision to [grant the former president’s request](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-mar-a-lago-ruling-fbi-special-master-1234586928/) for a “special master” to review the documents seized during the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago, a decision that delayed federal prosecutors’ ability to review evidence. Cannon’s decision was sharply rebuked by 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, who [wrote in their decision](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/11th-cir/eb9858de31042399/full.pdf) that the unprecedented nature of Trump’s case did not give “the judiciary license to interfere in an ongoing investigation.”
>Cannon rejected the advice from the two senior judges and went ahead and took up the case.
>Cannon was appointed to Florida’s District Court by Trump in 2020. Before her appointment, Cannon worked as a corporate lawyer [with little experience](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/us/politics/aileen-cannon-judge-trump-documents.html) in criminal trials. She had never held a position as a judge.
>In her oversight of the case, Cannon has [made several decisions](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/politics/aileen-cannon-judge-trump-classified-documents/index.html) that have seemed to disproportionally favor the former president. Critically, Cannon ruled to [indefinitely delay](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-classified-docs-trial-date-postponed-trump-appointed-judge-1235016808/) the start of the former president’s trial, all but certainly pushing it back to after the November election.
>The judge has been accused of slow-walking major rulings and decisions and [barred the Justice Department](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/politics/trump-documents-charges-cannon.html) from using allegations that Trump showed classified documents to individuals unauthorized to use them as a basis for their indictment.
More at OP link.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” Judge Cannon has shown a conflict of interest and inability to properly administer justice in a fair and impartial manner, by her actions and inactions in this case.
She listens the the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society. After listening to tapes from Roger Stone I think he calls her too.
real question is why is this coming out now? something is afoot . . .
Too bad for America, Judge Cannon took the case so she could drag it out in the hopes of being installed in the Supreme Court as “Justice” Cannon. Quid pro quo…
Judges have some of the biggest egos. I would’ve recused myself just to avoid the image of unprofessionalism
“But if I pass on it I won’t be able to sabotage it for Dear Leader…”
Is there nothing more they could have done. Seems like they were just covering their own butts. If they really felt sincere they would have made it more official or done more.
If she passed, how could she help his puppeteers?
An offer she couldn’t refuse…..
She already declined to step down.
“No, my people need me.”
This is how they sow doubt in the judicial system. With quacks like her, Hot Dog Barrett and Drunk Kavenaugh.
There truly are only two pictures of this woman.
What are the odds that Cannon ends up on the Supreme Court if Trump wins the election?
Question I keep wondering about, can she be charged with obstruction?
Poster child for Trump’s fcked up judiciary.
The corruption goes deep. If we survive this election with a Biden win, we need to turn over all the rocks and see what crawls out. Cannon does not belong on the bench.
On this episode of “Judge planting”
But the financial opportunity was too great?
There’s no way America gets rid of the rot. Even if /when Biden wins in November, Republicans have crossed the rubicon, and they will stop at nothing to burn the place down just to rule over the ashes.
Not that I’m asking for or condoning unthinkablly drastic actions, I just don’t see a future in which it doesn’t happen.
It’s not going to be a glorious battle in open fields. It’s going to be The Troubles. It’s going to be fucking depressing and ugly.
It’d be a good start if I didn’t have to see her smug mug every day
why is it voluntary
I think she will if Trump looses.
Her face horrifies me every time. Those eyes.
So weird she keeps getting the cases. Real humdinger. Rotten to the core in corruption
The Federal justice system is infested with MAGA operatives from the lowliest judge from Fort Pierce, Florida, to the US Supreme Court. Only the NY state courts have been able to effectively deal with Trump’s criminality.
They offered her the Thomas / Alito corrupting compensation package to stay on the case.