The summons sent to former President Donald Trump and his legal team late Thursday indicates that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will be assigned to oversee his case, at least initially, according to sources briefed on the matter.
Cannon's apparent assignment would add yet another unprecedented wrinkle to a case involving the first federal charges against a former president: Trump appointed Cannon to the federal bench in 2019, meaning that, if Trump is ultimately convicted, she would be responsible for determining the sentence – which may include prison time – for the man who elevated her to the role.
A federal grand jury voted to indict Trump on at least seven federal charges late Thursday as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The indictment comes after more than 100 documents with classified markings were found at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in August 2022.
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I foresee a dismissal based on vindicative prosecution.
ReplyDeleteYour welcome
ReplyDeleteJudge Cannon embarassed herself really badly the first time. Is she really going to do it again? She should recuse.
ReplyDeleteEmbarrassed? She had one point of view on the law and everyone else had another. An honest debate.
ReplyDeleteAn institutionalist would explain how a Palm Beach crime is before a Ft. Pierce judge.
ReplyDeleteShe isn’t dismissing shit. She will JOA after government rests. Next stop SCOTUS. The republicans know how to care for their own.
ReplyDeleteYou'd need some trial experience to have the balls to grant a JOA! If she ever wants to get out of her cuckoo nest, she'll be UBER impartial!
Delete10:41, To answer your suspicious question, one-half of Judge Cannon’s cases come from the Ft. Pierce division and the other half comes out of the West Palm Beach division.
ReplyDeleteShe will put the trial off until February, 2025. Trump either pardons himself or DeSantis puts a pitchfork in this travesty.
ReplyDeletePardons himself from what? This is a walk.
DeleteA walk through a sally port.
DeleteThe mathematical probability that any judge would be assigned both of Trump's cases at random, coincidentally, is ridiculously small. I would not be surprised in the least to learn that something less than random and less than ethical led to Cannon's reappointment for this indictment. Certainly it is unethical for Cannon not to recuse herself after she demonstrated so much bias for Trump the first time. Millions of citizens will distrust her, and the law is clear that she must recuse in such a circumstance. She won't recuse, of course, and the fact she chooses not to recuse will be closely related to why millions have good reason to distrust her in the first place.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Trump coming to Miami if his Magistrate is in West Palm? They do Initial Appearances in West Palm all the time? Anyone have a understanding why the summons was for Miami?
ReplyDeleteFortunately, there is a very smart chief judge in the SD Florida who will strongly urge Cannon to recuse herself and if she does not, Judge Altonaga will sua sponte remove her and have the case reassigned.
ReplyDeleteOne can only hope!
DeleteHere is another coincidence, 23-cv-80015-AMC Castro v. Trump
ReplyDeleteAileen M. Cannon, presiding
Date filed: 01/06/2023
Cannon= inexperienced...
ReplyDeleteYesterday, she failed to swear in a whole panel of prospective jurors before!!! #notreadyforprimetime
Is there anyone who reads this blog who is not a left-leaning liberal. Where was the outrage when Judge Middlebrooks entered a $1 million sanction aganst Trump and led the order with what even charitably would be viewed as partisan burst of bias. He is a good judge, but politics distorts the most respected of us. The first two paragraphs of his order make it unnecessary to read the rest of ut and should lead to an order directing recusal.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that a magistrate judge would be asked to approve a search warrant for a former president opened the door for unnecessary criticism of the Court. That was a big tent event. The chief judge should have appointed a three judge panel of her colleagues to do that.
As to the suggestion that the chief judge will push Judge Cannon out and reassign the case, that only brings greater weight to the view that different standards apply to women judges. What evidence does anyone have that Judge Cannon is biased?