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BumRushDaShow

(142,385 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 07:37 PM Oct 29

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.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-declines-step-aside-trump-suspect-case-1976874

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Aileen Cannon Declines to Step Aside From Trump Suspect Case (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 29 OP
She seems nice. dchill Oct 29 #1
Loose Cannon blowing out more BS Clouds Passing Oct 29 #2
Is she filing all her financial reports? Captain Zero Oct 29 #4
She dismissed the 40 federal felony charges agaibnst him. Doesn't that finish Autumn Oct 29 #3
Different case, different defendent getagrip_already Oct 29 #7
This is what I was going to say... slightlv Oct 29 #9
when is that appeal ? any idea? Fullduplexxx Oct 29 #10
Depends. Some courts only allow appeals of recusal decisions after the case is completed. onenote Oct 30 #20
Thank you for that Fullduplexxx Oct 30 #21
I clicked the link and when I scrolled it went to this and I wasn't paying attention Autumn Oct 30 #23
All in. n/t Harker Oct 29 #5
Did any of us actually expect her to recuse? WestMichRad Oct 29 #6
I didn't. I don't think the case for her rescuing was particularly strong. onenote Oct 29 #13
This is stupid on her part..... getagrip_already Oct 30 #24
Stepford.wife Evolve Dammit Oct 29 #8
This stinking MAGAT partisan son of a bitch really needs to be forced out. hadEnuf Oct 29 #11
She is not a son... NikoGriego Oct 30 #17
Yeah, she's that too! hadEnuf Oct 30 #18
Cannon's failure to recuse makes perfect sense if the intent was a close miss (again). Marcuse Oct 29 #12
Flipping it... Grins Oct 29 #14
She shows every day that she does not understand the term "Conflict of Interest" 4lbs Oct 29 #15
Sure she does Nasruddin Oct 29 #16
The end bdamomma Oct 30 #19
Why do we think we still have a justice system BlueKota Oct 30 #22

Autumn

(46,332 posts)
3. She dismissed the 40 federal felony charges agaibnst him. Doesn't that finish
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 07:45 PM
Oct 29

her part in the case? Fuck that magat.

getagrip_already

(17,440 posts)
7. Different case, different defendent
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:00 PM
Oct 29

This guy is accused of trying to kill tsf.

The appeal should be interesting.

slightlv

(4,332 posts)
9. This is what I was going to say...
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 08:34 PM
Oct 29

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...

onenote

(44,649 posts)
20. Depends. Some courts only allow appeals of recusal decisions after the case is completed.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 09:25 AM
Oct 30

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.

WestMichRad

(1,812 posts)
6. Did any of us actually expect her to recuse?
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 07:59 PM
Oct 29

I sure as hell didn’t.

How could she defend the victim if she were to step aside?
(Do I need a sarcasm emoji there?)

getagrip_already

(17,440 posts)
24. This is stupid on her part.....
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 10:45 AM
Oct 30

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.

hadEnuf

(2,703 posts)
11. This stinking MAGAT partisan son of a bitch really needs to be forced out.
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 09:00 PM
Oct 29

There must be something on this MAGA robot enough to get rid of her.

Grins

(7,889 posts)
14. Flipping it...
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:03 PM
Oct 29

"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)
15. She shows every day that she does not understand the term "Conflict of Interest"
Tue Oct 29, 2024, 10:06 PM
Oct 29

Looks like a federal appeals court will have to show her what it means.

BlueKota

(3,658 posts)
22. Why do we think we still have a justice system
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 09:33 AM
Oct 30

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.

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