Mar-a-Lago judge blasted for late trial date: "Cannon is slow-walking this case to benefit Trump"

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Legal experts criticized Cannon's pace in scheduling for the classified docs case with some accusing the Trump appointee of setting an elongated timeline to the former president's benefit.

"It really appears Cannon is slow-walking this case to benefit Trump," former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "She's already had these motions for weeks, and schedules the hearings more than two weeks from now? And this after taking weeks to issue a standard protective order."

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Not shocked. The only question is the percentage of this caused by her subservience and the percentage caused by her incompetence.

Fortunately there are 3 other criminal trials against Trump that she can't ruin with her corruption.

Several lawyers who have appeared before Cannon described her as "generally competent and straightforward" — as well as "someone who does not otherwise have a reputation of being unusually sympathetic to defendants." However, the sources, speaking anonymously to keep from publicly criticizing a judge before whom they may appear again, added that Cannon is "demonstrably inexperienced," particularly when unexpected issues arise or her actions are questioned.

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Oh come on she's obviously in the tank for him. F Salon.

It answered op’s question. So if she’s not incompetent, despite inexperience, the ace seemed clear enough to me.

The fact that a judge isn’t required to immediately recuse themselves if they’re picked for a case that involves the person who appointed them is insane. Sure, they’re “supposed to be impartial”, but judges are very obviously not being impartial… and there’s effect zero legal recourse for that.

If that were a thing, the right would clamor that it should also apply to judges appointed by the defendant's political opponents, and that would get all the cases against Turnip Dump tossed

She shouldnt be dismissed for being appointed by Trump.

She should be dismissed for being a die hard pro-trumpists who has tons of trump merchandise and a clear, personal bias towards Trump and has attended his rallys in full Trump face paint.

But this excludes all other judges that were appointed by 1) a different Republican president than Trump, and 2) a different Democrat president than Biden, no?

Unless all judge terms are shorter than 1-2 terms for presidents (haven't read all state/federal codes), this would leave a lot of judges left that would be considered less biased towards/against those under their prudence. No need to go nuclear devil's advocate for this one.

You are assuming republicans would negotiate in good faith, which is, forgive me, quite naïve.

I'm not claiming they would act in good faith, just that they would have less (unconscious) biased towards plaintiffs/defendants. Conscious biases would still be in play

If after every single time someone mentions x and they have to write formerly known as twitter, they might as well just call it twitter. X is never going to stick because it's dumb as shit.

Got a real "the artist formerly know as Prince" vibe, but not nearly as creative as using an unpronounceable glyph, I suppose.

He did want to be referred to as 'the artist'. It's was a comment on how impersonal the business of music was. As in contracts princes would be referred to as the artist.

When they name it back they need to start saying ‘the platform formerly known as the platform formerly known as Twitter’

I'd give anything to live in a world without headlines that include blast or slam.

It's better than "owned" and "fail" though.

That would make talking about The Nation of I much more difficult

Shocking no one. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she's literally in contact with Trump. Through an intermediary or directly.

Can’t they just have someone else work on it instead of her?

I believe that the DOJ can appeal to the higher court to try to get Cannon removed from the case. If they try that and succeed, Trump's lawyers will claim that they are going judge shopping to find one biased against Trump. If they try and fail, then this might result in Cannon acting even more in Trump's interest.

From what I can see, the DOJ's strategy is to play the long game. They're making notes of everything Cannon does incorrectly while trying to work with her. This way, if they eventually ask for a new judge, they'll be more likely to get one and it will be evident that they didn't go running to ask for a new judge immediately.

I guess if the DOJ has a problem with this judge you'll know about it.

The Garland DOJ has no problem slow walking anything having to do with Trump.

Jack Smirh is in charge of all thing Trump for the DOJ. He's got Trump on 80+ charges and is ready to go to court. Time schedules, as always, are set by the court.

I'm actually fine with this. The DC case is streamlined and will likely result in a conviction long before the documents case could get anywhere even if it were an impartial judge. It's better this way since the documents case will involve classified materials that can't be shared publicly that'll make the conspiracy theory nutjobs even more nuttier (and possibly violent) than usual.

Better to have Trump already in prison while that case is going on. He can be ferried from federal prison to Florida back to prison, then over to Georgia for that trial. The secrecy involved with the evidence in the documents case won't matter much to anyone if he's already incarcerated and we're seeing a televised trial in Georgia at the same time.

I kinda suspect it may be why Smith didn't challenge Cannon being the judge presiding over the documents case. Though I doubt that, Jack Smith seems like a straight shooter to me. At any rate, it's probably good for that case to be delayed.