Lee Heidhues 6.9.2023
Nobody thinks this is going to be Easy.
Either by random choice or conscious decision by the Federal Court in Florida a Judge, who has already shown extreme favoritism to Trump was assigned to the Case.
Judge Aileen Cannon’s rulings last year regarding the FBI search a Mar a Lago were so bad that she was over ruled and admonished by a three Judge Federal Appeals panel.
The legal pundits are already in overdrive on how Judge Cannon will handle her second go around with Trump.
At least, for now, Trump can’t whine and moan about Judge Cannon. That could all change. Quickly. Stay tuned.
Excerpted from The New York Times 6.9.2023
Even as prosecutors publicly unveiled a deep and detailed array of evidence against former President Donald J. Trump in the documents investigation on Friday, they suffered a potential setback with the surprise assignment of the case to Judge Aileen M. Cannon.
Judge Cannon, 42, a Trump appointee in Florida, shocked legal experts across ideological lines last year by intervening in the investigation and issuing rulings favorable to Mr. Trump, only to be rebuked by a conservative appeals court.
The chief clerk of court for the Southern District of Florida has said that new cases there are randomly delegated to its judges even if they are related to previous ones. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Trump lucked out, or if an exception was made. Either way, legal specialists said Judge Cannon’s return was significant.
The unsealed indictment offered “a strong factual presentation,” said Paul Rosenzweig, a former Bush administration official and federal prosecutor who worked on the independent counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton. “If this were a normal person and a normal case, you’d be talking to your client about pleading guilty. So I think the Cannon draw is actually a serious blow to the prosecution.”
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