Aileen Cannon Declines to Step Aside From Trump Suspect Case
Source: Newsweek
Published Oct 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM EDT | Updated Oct 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM EDT
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will not be recusing herself from overseeing the case involving a man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf club in September.
In a motion filed Tuesday, Cannon dismissed assertions that she has any "relationship" with the former president. The judge, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, has been accused of being partial to him, such as when this summer she dismissed the 40 federal felony charges against him in connection with his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.
"I have no control over what private citizens, members of the media, or public officials or candidates elect to say about me or my judicial rulings," Cannon wrote Tuesday. "Nor am I concerned about the political consequences of my rulings or how those rulings might be viewed by 'some in the media.'"
The defendant in Trump's assassination case, Ryan Wesley Routh, had filed for Cannon to remove herself from his case. Routh is accused of planning to shoot the GOP presidential nominee at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on September 15 after he was spotted by Secret Service agents pointing a rifle in Trump's direction from the golf course's boundary.
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dchill
(40,476 posts)Clouds Passing
(2,268 posts)Captain Zero
(7,507 posts)Are we looking at them?
Autumn
(46,332 posts)her part in the case? Fuck that magat.
getagrip_already
(17,440 posts)This guy is accused of trying to kill tsf.
The appeal should be interesting.
slightlv
(4,332 posts)the appeal is all but guaranteed with this decision by Cannon, especially if she's not disciplined or removed from the Docs case by the Circuit...
Fullduplexxx
(8,267 posts)onenote
(44,649 posts)The better view, imo, and the one taken in a growing number of courts, is to allow an "interlocutory" appeal before final judgment where the issue is whether a judge should have granted a motion to recuse before the trial began. I haven't found an 11th circuit case addressing this question.
Fullduplexxx
(8,267 posts)Autumn
(46,332 posts)Harker
(14,940 posts)WestMichRad
(1,812 posts)I sure as hell didnt.
How could she defend the victim if she were to step aside?
(Do I need a sarcasm emoji there?)
onenote
(44,649 posts)getagrip_already
(17,440 posts)The guy has no case. Any judge will do a good job and he will be convicted on the evidence.
She could have taken the high ground and said she was avoiding even the appearance of a conflict. That would have helped with the doc case appeal where they might very well take it away from her.
Just stupid. She has to see tsf is losing and she will never be ag.
Evolve Dammit
(18,632 posts)hadEnuf
(2,703 posts)There must be something on this MAGA robot enough to get rid of her.
NikoGriego
(3 posts)hadEnuf
(2,703 posts)Marcuse
(8,008 posts)Grins
(7,889 posts)"Nor am I concerned about the political consequences of my rulings or how those rulings might be viewed by 'some in the media.'"
Judge Tanya Chutkan on the other hand
4lbs
(7,395 posts)Looks like a federal appeals court will have to show her what it means.
She runs towards them, not away
bdamomma
(66,446 posts)goal for her is the Supreme Court. Another sycophant for the felon.
BlueKota
(3,658 posts)when she and the 6 facist enablers on the SC are allowed to enable the tsf and his followers to do anything they want? Refuse to follow any norms themselves? I know this is a separate case from the documents one, but it just proves they don't even have the common decency or morals to remove themselves from cases where their conflict of interest is clear.