Judge Aileen Cannon's Coworkers Begged Her Not To Take The Pool Shed Papers Case

Judge Aileen Cannon's Coworkers Begged Her Not To Take The Pool Shed Papers Case
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61195263/judge-cannon-favor-trump-trial/


The federal judiciary gossip network is allegedly atwitter.


By Charles P. Pierce Published: Jun 20, 2024 4:54 PM EDT


Oh, come on, Aileen. The kitty has come a' leaping out of the burlap. From The New York Times:

The judges who approached Judge Cannon — including the chief judge in the Southern District of Florida, Cecilia M. Altonaga — each asked her to consider whether it would be better if she were to decline the high-profile case, allowing it to go to another judge, the two people said.

But Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, wanted to keep the case and refused the judges’ entreaties. Her assignment raised eyebrows because she has scant trial experience and had previously shown unusual favor to Mr. Trump by intervening in a way that helped him in the criminal investigation that led to his indictment, only to be reversed in a sharply critical rebuke by a conservative appeals court panel.

A little further down in the story, we get to the real tasty clams in the chowder.

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. 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.

This will hang over the strange little trial-within-a-trial on Friday in which Cannon will hear arguments from the former president*'s lawyers that the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel was constitutionally invalid. Ruth Marcus, writing in the Washington Post, is not impressed by these events....................