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Judge in Trump classified documents case reportedly refused to step aside
"Judge Pushes Back Critical Filing Deadline in Trump Documents Case
[...]P - In Thursday’s ruling, Cannon also defended an order from last month that asked lawyers for both sides to formulate potential jury instructions and to respond to two different scenarios in which she appeared to be continuing to entertain Trump’s presidential records argument.
P - The order puzzled legal experts and drew a sharp rebuke from Smith’s team .. https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-a99a6bc9fd9b44ffddecf979f8e1baa9 , with prosecutors in a filing this week calling the premises the judge laid out “fundamentally flawed” and warning that they were prepared to appeal if she pushed ahead with jury instructions that they considered wrong."
Aileen Cannon was urged by senior jurists to recuse herself over perception of bias towards Trump, report says
Robert Tait in Washington
Fri 21 Jun 2024 06.31 AEST
Last modified on Fri 21 Jun 2024 07.14 AEST
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images
Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge who has come under fire for her handling of classified document charges against Donald Trump, ignored the advice of more senior colleagues to decline the case and pass it to another jurist, it has been reported.
Trump falsely claims US justice department was ready to kill him
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/trump-fbi-doj-lethal-force
Two senior judges on the Florida .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida .. bench urged Cannon to defer when it was randomly assigned to her last June, in part due to a perception that she was biased in Trump’s favour because of her actions after the allegations against him of illegally retaining sensitive government documents first came to light.
According to the New York Times, Cannon – who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump – rejected .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html%3E .. the advice and kept the case, in which the former president faces charges being prosecuted by the special counsel Jack Smith.
She has since issued a series of widely criticised rulings that have had the effect of delaying the trial, playing into Trump’s legal strategy of holding the case at bay until after November’s presidential election, when he could be elected president once again and be in a position to instruct the Department of Justice to drop the charges.
Her rulings have drawn the scorn of Trump’s former White House counsel, Ty Cobb, who this month described .. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4707279-ty-cobb-donald-trump-classified-documents-case-judge-aileen-cannon-jack-smith-gag-order-request/ .. as “dangerous and incendiary” Cannon’s refusal to grant a gag order request from Smith against Trump.
Smith had asked for the order after the former president falsely alleged that the FBI was “locked and loaded” and ready to kill him and his family when officers entered his Mar-a-Lago .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mar-a-lago .. home to retrieve a trove of documents in 2022. In fact, the raid had been agreed with Trump’s lawyers in advance and timed to take place when he would not be present.
The attempt to persuade Cannon to step aside was reportedly prompted by her actions after the FBI seized the documents – when she intervened on Trump’s side after he had filed suit claiming they were his personal property, appointing a special master to review them before prosecutors had a chance to see them.
This ruling was later reversed by the 11th court of appeals in Atlanta, which issued a rebuke of Cannon’s judgment, saying she had no authority to bar investigators from seeing the documents.
The argument that this episode was sufficient reason for Cannon to pass on the case was reportedly put forward by Cecilia Altonaga, the chief judge of Florida’s southern district.
Another unnamed judge was said to have put a different line of reasoning to her – that it would be better to have the case transferred to a jurist based closer to the district’s busiest courthouse in Miami, which had a facility to store the classified documents and where Trump had initially been indicted.
Since Cannon rejected entreaties to defer the case to another judge, a secure facility to store the documents has since been built at taxpayers’ expense in the courthouse where she presides at Fort Pierce, around two hours’ drive north of Miami.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/20/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents-case
"Judge Pushes Back Critical Filing Deadline in Trump Documents Case
[...]P - In Thursday’s ruling, Cannon also defended an order from last month that asked lawyers for both sides to formulate potential jury instructions and to respond to two different scenarios in which she appeared to be continuing to entertain Trump’s presidential records argument.
P - The order puzzled legal experts and drew a sharp rebuke from Smith’s team .. https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-a99a6bc9fd9b44ffddecf979f8e1baa9 , with prosecutors in a filing this week calling the premises the judge laid out “fundamentally flawed” and warning that they were prepared to appeal if she pushed ahead with jury instructions that they considered wrong."
Aileen Cannon was urged by senior jurists to recuse herself over perception of bias towards Trump, report says
Robert Tait in Washington
Fri 21 Jun 2024 06.31 AEST
Last modified on Fri 21 Jun 2024 07.14 AEST
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. Photograph: Giorgio Viera/AFP/Getty Images
Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge who has come under fire for her handling of classified document charges against Donald Trump, ignored the advice of more senior colleagues to decline the case and pass it to another jurist, it has been reported.
Trump falsely claims US justice department was ready to kill him
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/trump-fbi-doj-lethal-force
Two senior judges on the Florida .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/florida .. bench urged Cannon to defer when it was randomly assigned to her last June, in part due to a perception that she was biased in Trump’s favour because of her actions after the allegations against him of illegally retaining sensitive government documents first came to light.
According to the New York Times, Cannon – who was appointed to the federal bench by Trump – rejected .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/us/politics/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents.html%3E .. the advice and kept the case, in which the former president faces charges being prosecuted by the special counsel Jack Smith.
She has since issued a series of widely criticised rulings that have had the effect of delaying the trial, playing into Trump’s legal strategy of holding the case at bay until after November’s presidential election, when he could be elected president once again and be in a position to instruct the Department of Justice to drop the charges.
Her rulings have drawn the scorn of Trump’s former White House counsel, Ty Cobb, who this month described .. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4707279-ty-cobb-donald-trump-classified-documents-case-judge-aileen-cannon-jack-smith-gag-order-request/ .. as “dangerous and incendiary” Cannon’s refusal to grant a gag order request from Smith against Trump.
Smith had asked for the order after the former president falsely alleged that the FBI was “locked and loaded” and ready to kill him and his family when officers entered his Mar-a-Lago .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/mar-a-lago .. home to retrieve a trove of documents in 2022. In fact, the raid had been agreed with Trump’s lawyers in advance and timed to take place when he would not be present.
The attempt to persuade Cannon to step aside was reportedly prompted by her actions after the FBI seized the documents – when she intervened on Trump’s side after he had filed suit claiming they were his personal property, appointing a special master to review them before prosecutors had a chance to see them.
This ruling was later reversed by the 11th court of appeals in Atlanta, which issued a rebuke of Cannon’s judgment, saying she had no authority to bar investigators from seeing the documents.
The argument that this episode was sufficient reason for Cannon to pass on the case was reportedly put forward by Cecilia Altonaga, the chief judge of Florida’s southern district.
Another unnamed judge was said to have put a different line of reasoning to her – that it would be better to have the case transferred to a jurist based closer to the district’s busiest courthouse in Miami, which had a facility to store the classified documents and where Trump had initially been indicted.
Since Cannon rejected entreaties to defer the case to another judge, a secure facility to store the documents has since been built at taxpayers’ expense in the courthouse where she presides at Fort Pierce, around two hours’ drive north of Miami.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/20/aileen-cannon-trump-classified-documents-case
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