Lawyers who appeared before Judge Aileen Cannon had some sharp critiques of how she oversaw the courtroom.
Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case, may be in over her head due to a serious lack of experience, according to a new report from CNN.
The news outlet spoke to 10 attorneys who had cases before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida—and they painted a picture of a judge with limited trial experience, who’s prone to getting bogged down by irrelevant legal questions and struggles to manage her docket of cases efficiently.
Before Trump appointed her to the federal bench in 2020, Cannon was an attorney in the Justice Department for seven years and only took part in four criminal trials. In her four years as a judge, she hasn’t presided over many criminal cases either—and attorneys said it shows.
“She just seems overwhelmed by the process,” one lawyer told CNN. Other lawyers said that she lets small, marginal issues overwhelm the major details of cases. She also has rejected joint motions, agreed upon by both parties in a case with no dispute.
I’m really getting sick and tired of fascists being continually given the benefit of the doubt.
Let’s make this very clear: Aileen Cannon is not “in over her head,” “getting bogged down,” or “overwhelmed by the process.” She knows exactly what she’s doing, and she’s doing it on purpose. As far as I’m aware, she hasn’t missed a single trick in doing everything possible to throw the case in favor of Trump while retaining the tiniest fig leaf of deniability. If anything, she is masterful at corruption!
All these moderate dipshits hemming and hawing and second-guessing the intentionality of everything the fascist traitors do in some misguided compulsion to “decorum” or “norms” or “fair play,” ignoring that Trump thoroughly jettisoned all of those things a decade ago, are going to eventually find themselves in front of a firing squad of redhats and be mystified as to how they got there.