Posted on 06/20/2024 12:14:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Shortly after Judge Aileen M. Cannon drew the assignment in June 2023 to oversee former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist, according to two people briefed on the conversations.
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 drew attention 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.
The extraordinary and previously undisclosed effort by Judge Cannon’s colleagues to persuade her to step aside adds another dimension to the increasing criticism of how she has gone on to handle the case.
She has broken, according to lawyers who operate there, with a general practice of federal judges in the Southern District of Florida of delegating some pretrial motions to a magistrate — in this instance, Judge Bruce E. Reinhart. While he is subordinate to her, Judge Reinhart is an older and much more experienced jurist. In 2022, he was the one who signed off on an F.B.I. warrant to search Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s club and residence in Florida, for highly sensitive government files that Mr. Trump kept after leaving office...
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So Reinhardt is the one who authorized the warrant authorizing deadly force against a former President of the US?
Another interpretation is that this is improper judicial interference by Judicial colleagues of a different political persuasion.
She likely knows Trump would not get a fair trial in the hands of another judge, and even delegating pretrial motions would result in prejudiced rulings that would tilt the scales against him. So far, she seems right down the middle.
Yeah, the unfound declassified Ruzzia collusion file. Also files kept under the Presidential Records Act as personal files oh and the GSA didn't want them.
NYT= Deep State Shill
They want it both ways: They want to force Trump to take possession of classified documents, implicitly admitting he owns them, then they want to prosecute him for possessing the very documents they forced him to take possession of and implicitly admitted he owned.
Charlie Savage and Alan Feuer
We know the names of these two communist cretins. Now we just need to know where they live. /spit
In case anyone is wondering, those requests were completely inappropriate.
The bias in the courts these days has nothing to do with conservative or liberal politics.
It has to do with which judges can be blackmailed, and which cannot.
We all know the blackmailing is on the anti-Trump side of things.
This is just like MSNBC or Chuck Todd offering advice to Republicans, you know, for their own good.
Altonaga’s first judge appointment- County in FL was by Lawton Chiles,D-Gov of FL the “he coon” hisself (a machine democrat). Then she was elevated to circuit judge by JEB! Bush, Gov, then GW Bush.
Cuban, Yale Law (and it’s the Yale thing that is that “club” even for a Cuban woman. The club tried to take Cannon off the case— because of Dade County/FL politics, fairly certain. Altonaga has handled some heavy duty cases (Drug wars Carribean stuff. Miami is full of this, like some movie. Less so now- only more sophisticated).
The New York Times’ fascism is palpable.
Merchan has made very little effort to protect Trump’s right to an impartial jury. Is he is lazy, indifferent, or TDS?
There is not a single valid reason for her to step aside. Her rulings have consistently been according to what the law requires. Not all of which were favorable to Trump’s defense.
If the NYT says so you can believe them. After all they called it right on “Uncle Jo”e, letting the world know of his marvels. So when it comes to matters political all shall listen to the NYT.
Totally inappropriate for the judges to talk about another judge’s case publicly.
Bush appointee? That’s not a positive thing.
Doubters that Altonga’s advice to recuse was friendly advice, may indeed be correct...but my point is we don’t know. I don’t jump until I know.
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