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(22,716 posts)
Tue Nov 7, 2023, 06:13 PM Nov 2023

"Not credible": Experts say Cannon's new orders suggest she "has her thumb on the scale for TFG"

"She needs to go back to judges’ school," says ex-U.S. attorney.

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon is continuously straying from legal principle in her handling of TFG's classified documents case after she rebuked special counsel Jack Smith for alerting her to the former president's motion to delay his Washington, D.C. federal case, legal experts argued. That order, coupled with her signal last week that she may further delay the trial in line with the defense's request, has raised alarms for former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, who described Cannon's criticism of prosecutors as "off base."

"Many people have a sense Judge Cannon has her thumb on the scale for TFG," Vance said on X, formerly Twitter. "Perhaps Judge Cannon needs to remember what this case is about: alleged crimes regarding the treatment of highly classified documents by a former president — allegations that are backed up by evidence collected during execution of a court-ordered search warrant," Vance wrote in her newsletter. "Instead it seems to have devolved into an inexplicable grudge match with the Special Counsel's office on her part."

"Biased or not, Cannon simply doesn’t have game; and she masks it with prickly remonstrations of the government," former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman tweeted. "She needs to go back to judges’ school, except there isn’t such a place.
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"Does she believe that the case is too complicated to try as soon as May, even though the lawyers have had months to prepare and will have six more months before May? That's not credible," he said, noting that Trump's D.C. case, though "more complicated," is proceeding swiftly. - Salon

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"Not credible": Experts say Cannon's new orders suggest she "has her thumb on the scale for TFG" (Original Post) ffr Nov 2023 OP
I'm focusing on the other trials. this judge will let him get away with treason. mucifer Nov 2023 #1
Yes, she will, and the documents case is so wnylib Nov 2023 #2
How far does she have to go before we can challenge her authority? Baitball Blogger Nov 2023 #3
How far . . . before she's arrested for aiding and abetting the crime of espionage? RobertDevereaux Nov 2023 #8
BURN.. I hope Something can be Done Cha Nov 2023 #4
Oh - then I must be an expert, too! dchill Nov 2023 #5
Make it a heavy boulder on the scale. ananda Nov 2023 #6
Famous Judges School TZ617 Nov 2023 #7
What can be done about this/her? sheshe2 Nov 2023 #9

wnylib

(22,297 posts)
2. Yes, she will, and the documents case is so
Tue Nov 7, 2023, 06:33 PM
Nov 2023

important to national security that she should be removed from the case.

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