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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Wow ... the leftist media pushing disinformation.
They are truly skeert.
Its funny how the commies had ZERO issue with Merchan, who donated to Biden, was a member of the “No Trump” group, his daughter made MILLIONS off of Trump being convicted and these same leftists had no issue with Merchan remaining on the case, but Cannon they want out because she has been FAIR..notice she has called it down the middle, she has rejected arguments from both the prosecution and defense, she has played things down the middle
Chief Judge is Cuban, Bush appointee, married , kids...
...perhaps friendly with Cannon offering sincere advise about dangers to reputation.
“...he was the one who signed off on an F.B.I. warrant...”
And obviously a Garland minion with Long TDS.
So a judge's "reputation" is more important than enforcing the rule of law?
Obviously the plan was to have Reinhart be the Judge since he was the filthy rat who Authorized the raid on an ex President in the first place. Too bad a-holes you don’t get everything.
Thanks, NYT, now do Judge Engoron and Judge Merchan...
Deep State judges always defer when they are asked.
LOL. No bias here/s
“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”
Meanwhile, in New York an "acting" interim judge appointed by other judges to fill a temporary shortage in a county court has the authority to jail the leading candidate in the next Presidential election, and nobody questions that?
-PJ
Cannon is showing remarkable self-control. The collectivists are melting.
“...highly sensitive government files that Mr. Trump kept...”
We need to see the receipts for that claim.
Riiiiiiiiight.
P
They want Cannon to step aside... No kidding.. Of course they do..
Those people on the corrupt left.. Their daily jobs are to “get anyone in their way”. They don’t stop.
FL case is not going according to Dems’ plan- = kind of like Hunter’s plea deal end run. God works in mysterious yet magnificent ways.
I see.
Lawfare cases MUST be heard by judges known to be hostile to the target of the lawfare.
They know what’s coming.
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