Aileen Cannon is a fraud. No surprise, she is working for Trump while betraying her oath of office.

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If we could get this Trump-loving judge and her slow-walking obstructionism out of the way, this case would result in the most certain slam-dunk conviction of him.

Special Counsel Jack Smith has had it with Trump-appointed Federal Judge Aileen Cannon. Judge Cannon has been indulging every questionable whim used by Trump's lawyers in the classified documents case in order to stall it. Her decisions have been blatantly partisan; perhaps Trump promised her a seat on the US Supreme Court – not that he's famous for following through on loyalty.

Jack Smith filed a motion asking Cannon to get moving with the case – with the implied threat that he will appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to have her overruled or even removed from the case. The 11th Circuit had already, in a unanimous decision, vacated a previous order of hers which would have delayed the proceedings.

Time To Fire The Cannon?

Putting Trump back in office would allow him to appoint more dubious judges like Aileen Cannon. Defeating Trump would not just protect democracy but would prevent the federal judiciary from becoming a corrupt Trump tool.

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Nick Visser at HuffPost:

Special counsel Jack Smith urged the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case to reject any further efforts to delay his trial. Trump’s attorneys recently asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to push back a deadline next month to review classified information related to the former president’s indictment into his handling of such material after he left the White House. They pointed to Trump’s separate hush money case in Manhattan that is set to begin Monday, saying the deadline requires time he and his lawyers “simply do not have.”

But Smith’s team said Cannon’s May 9 deadline had been imposed for months and accused Trump’s team of “reflexively” asking to postpone a trial every time the court sets a new deadline. “The defendants have had ample notice that these deadlines would be scheduled and have already had months to complete the work,” Smith wrote in a new court filing. “Counsel should already be prepared to meet these deadlines, and in any event, other commitments are not grounds for postponement.” “Each time the Court sets a new deadline in this case and attempts to keep it moving toward trial,” he added later, “the defendants reflexively ask for an adjournment. That must stop.” Smith went on to note that Trump chose to hire the same attorneys to represent him in multiple cases, and the lawyers agreed to do so. “Having made such decisions, they should not be allowed to use their overlapping engagements to perpetually delay trial in this case,” he wrote. “The Court should reject the defendants’ latest delay tactic.”

Special Counsel Jack Smith is urging Judge Aileen Cannon to reject further delay tactics in the classified documents theft case (United States v. Trump).

To any lawyer with serious federal criminal court experience who is being honest, this ruling [by Judge Cannon] is laughably bad, and the written justification is even flimsier. Donald Trump is getting something no one else ever gets in federal court, he’s getting it for no good reason, and it will not in the slightest reduce the ongoing howls that he is being persecuted, when he is being privileged.

Samuel W. Buell, Bernard M. Fishman Professor of Law at the Duke University School of Law

Judge’s inaction in Trump classified documents case dashes July trial hopes

Aileen Cannon is an unqualified and partial judge. Like all in the Federalist Society, she can be corrupted with ease.

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Joyce Alene, discussing Judge Eileen Cannon's actions/motives

I’m a retired lawyer. Also a trump hater, so that part obviously taints my view. But just using my lawyer sense and putting away the trump shit, this woman totally offends me. She is clearly a right wing, Federalist Society, MAGA cult member, trump-loving tramp, with no concept of what it means to be a judge under our judicial system. She needs to be removed from the court, in whatever legally appropriate manner possible.

Excerpt from this Op-Ed from the Washington Post:

The Supreme Court is facing a legitimacy crisis as its ongoing legal revolution becomes more and more alarming to a public unhappy about its recent rulings on abortion and gun rights. But there’s another legitimacy crisis brewing, one that can be seen vividly in Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s extraordinary rulings in the case involving Donald Trump’s hoarding of documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Cannon, who was appointed by Trump despite her thin experience, has been almost comically eager to help the former president. Her appointment of a special master to review documents seized in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago was greeted with shock and ridicule on substantive grounds and was widely seen as a means of delaying the case as long as possible.

But Cannon’s latest intervention on Trump’s behalf is particularly disturbing. I want to focus on one part of the order she gave Thursday, because it speaks to how we believe courts are supposed to work and how those foundations of the justice system are being warped.

This may seem like a small thing. But it’s a direct assault on the idea that the courts are a venue where fairness prevails precisely because there are strict rules everyone has to follow, rules designed to get to the truth.

Almost two years after Trump left office, the poison he injected into the courts with the appointment of a long list of hack judges is becoming more clear. It’s increasingly difficult to look at important court cases of recent days and believe that whether you like the outcome, the procedures have been fair, the judges have worked to be objective and the integrity of the courts is intact.

On Wednesday, the Appellate Court overruled Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling that blocked the DOJ from continuing to review the documents seized from trump's Mar-a-Lago resort residence. With regards to trump's claims of having 'declassified' the documents, the Court wrote that "...the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified" and the Court further stated:

"In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring, since declassifying an official document would not change the contents nor render it personal."

This was the unaminous ruling of the three Appellate Court judges of the 11th Circuit, two of whom are trump appointees. Two of three judges hand-picked by trump himself calls his attempts to circumvent justice a "red herring."

From the June 14, 2023 opinion piece:

Few jurists have auditioned more brazenly than Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed federal judge who will oversee special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution of the former president. Cannon has already proved that she’s more radical and less principled than Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or Barrett by running interference for Trump to an astonishing degree in an earlier phase of the case. She is now in a perfect position to sabotage Smith’s prosecution—more successfully than when she tried to sabotage the investigation—in yet another display of fealty to the man who appointed her. But she faces formidable rivals in her quest to become a leading candidate for the Supreme Court.