US judge Aileen Cannon’s delays in setting a schedule means prosecutors are unlikely to get their wish for a trial in July
The prospects of Donald Trump going to trial in July on charges of retaining national security documents, as suggested by special counsel prosecutors, are rapidly diminishing, with the judge overseeing the case yet to issue a schedule weeks after she was presented with the potential options.
The US district judge Aileen Cannon received proposed trial start dates from Trump and the special counsel Jack Smith more than a month ago in advance of a hearing ostensibly to settle the matter in Fort Pierce, Florida, but she has still not decided when the proceeding will begin.
As a result, Trump has been able to avoid filing certain pre-trial motions that have to be completed before the case can proceed to trial, playing into his strategy of trying to delay the case as much as possible before the 2024 election in November.
Wow i wonder how far the judge can go before someone has to step in. Is there even a mechanism to remove an incompetent judge, or have we been completely relying on judges to not be corrupt on a pinky swear this whole time? Ah well, one more pitch fork on the pile.
They are SUPPOSED to be bound by a code of ethics (except for the USSC, which is crazy), but Canon is a wildly unqualified lackey, so she apparently either doesn’t know or does just doesn’t care
A code of ethics without the punishment for breaching it is probably more flimsy then a pinky swear
She can lose her license to practice law.
USSJ, it’s a joke now
There is, but it’s rarely used. Judges in lower courts can be removed from a case by an appeals court, and any judge can be impeached and removed from the role entirely. But it takes something pretty extreme for it do actually happen.
How extreme are we talking about here? They already get kick backs, so is there like a number they have to stay under? Is assisting by stalling long enough to reach the power to aquit themselves seems on the same level as stalling out a case so it goes over the statue of limitations to aquit the guilty
Look at the “kids for cash” program. That kind of extreme.
In FL, 3 very bad rulings/orders/whatever can cause a judge to be thrown off a case if determined to be necessary by the other judges in that district.
Cannon already has 2 strikes in this case where the district has made her reverse bad decisions. I think she will eventually be thrown off the case, but she’s already won. The goal was to delay the trial until after the election. Mission accomplished.
Can a judge be sued for obstructing justice? Asking for a friend.
Angling for that Supreme Court seat if Trump wins.
Sued? No. Not sued.
A judge can be lots of things for being corrupt and incompetent though.
Including a judge or justice, and not including fired, censured, disbarred…
Mmm hmmm, mmm hmmm. Yes, those too.
She’ll likely be removed from the case eventually, but by then it’ll be too close to November for the Garland DOJ to consider justice a priority over appearances and refuse to appoint a new judge to the case until after the election.
Of course, given Biden’s increasingly unpopular insistence on participating in a genocide, Trump might actually WIN the election, in which case holding him accountable for anything becomes illegal.
given Biden’s increasingly unpopular insistence on participating in a genocide
As opposed to Trump’s very popular insistence to actually nuke Gaza and Ukraine, I suppose? I guess it’s not a genocide if your candidate does it and it happens quickly enough.
Trump is not my candidate. Biden is by far the lesser of the two evils. With regards to Israel and in general.
That doesn’t mean that we have to meekly accept him being on the wrong side of history without so much as criticism.
ESPECIALLY when one of the consequences of Biden’s abhorrent actions might be that he alienates enough voters for Trump to win the last US presidential election.
Trump is not my candidate.
Just like people who defended Trump in 2016 saying stupid stuff like “he’s not anti-abortion he paid for abortions”.
I don’t care who you vote for, you’re whitewashing Trump by omission. If you actually cared about Gaza you’d rightfully point out that Trump’s politics and platform is actually worst than Biden’s on every aspect of that conflict. But you didn’t.
I’m not in any way defending or omitting Trump. Read what I ACTUALLY wrote without your tribal “every criticism of Biden is praise of Trump” glasses on.
If you actually cared about Gaza you’d rightfully point out that Trump’s politics and platform is actually worst than Biden’s on every aspect of that conflict. But you didn’t.
You’re sounding exactly like the people in October and November who insisted that any criticism of the Israeli government that didn’t also explicitly call out Hamas was antisemitism.
What Biden is doing is objectively atrocious. He doesn’t get a free pass to enable genocide just because Trump would enable genocide harder.
I’m 99.9999999% sure Trump will win. We don’t get to have nice things in this timeline.
On May 21, 2020, at age 39, Cannon was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.[
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Cannon
trump threw a shit fit when a judge’s child gave $50 to a random Democrat…
But Democrats never thought to challenge him being tried by a judge he appointed?
Like, who’s honestly surprised that a trump appointed judge is shady?
They definitely did challenge it
As much as Michael Scottdeclared bankruptcy…
Wow, a GOP nominee obstructing and delaying is just such a surprise. It isn’t like that is the entire party approach to anything they oppose.
What a farce.
The American system of government lets me down yet again
This country is turning into a literal pile of shit, and that pile is getting bigger by the day.
