Judge Aileen Cannon chastised special counselJack Smith’steam Tuesday for what she described as failing to meaningfully reach out to former President Trump’s attorneyson a motionto limit his speech in the classified documents case after Trump claimed law enforcement had the ...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has much more free time on her hands now. Last week, her calendar was packed with hearings and pending motions in former President Donald Trump’s federal classified documents case. But on Monday she issued a sweeping rulingdismissing the caseand finding t...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is at it again. Her latest weird move in Donald Trump’s classified documents case involves jury instructions. That may sound like a mundane subject but it’s quite important, because these instructions are what a jury will use to c...
After twisting federal criminal and national security law to help former President Trump fend off the Mar-a-Lago investigation, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida has given him another boost. In aThursday order, Cannon smacked down an attempt from the special...
JudgeAileen Cannondenied the motion which argued that the Espionage Act statute under which Trump was charged was unconstitutionally vague. She suggested in a brief ruling that this was a question that would be best answered in the course of a trial, and she left open the possibility that the...
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed former PresidentTrump’s classified records trialin a Tuesday filing. The trial was set to litigate charges stemming from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, which notably featured an August 2022 FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago compound in Palm...
On Friday, special counselJack Smithmoved to modify Donald Trump’s release conditions in the classified documents case, asking U.S. District JudgeAileen Cannonto clarify that the defendant can’t make statements putting law enforcement in danger. The special counsel cited “seve...
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida, who was nominated by Trump to the bench in 2020, is handling the former President’s request for the special master, a third-party attorney who would filter out privileged material seized in the search. Cannon has put bot...
Smith warned Judge Aileen Cannon that her approach to the law governing the handling of presidential records — and so Donald Trump’s culpability in the case — was “fundamentally flawed” and threatened to seek rare pretrial review by the 11th US Circuit...
“(Trump)’s unfit to serve, he can’t get anywhere near the White House. But if somehow they win, they can actually appoint two or three more justices,” Emhoff said. “And they’re going to be, like, in the Aileen Cannon, they don’t follow any precedent, they’re just going ...