Updated August 27, 2024 Last month, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case against former
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said in a 93-page order that she has granted Trump's bid to dismiss the indictment based on the unlawful funding and appointment of special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the charges against the former president. "The bottom line is this: The Appointments...
who have already thrown out her decisions before, to remove her from the case altogether. The argument for this is that Cannon has already shown herself to be biased and that this has manifested itself in rulings that clearly defy the
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...
In fact, the Justice Department itself confirmed this interpretation of the relevant policies in court on Friday during a hearing in Trump’s classified-documents case in Florida, where trial scheduling has also been at issue. Smith’s team told presiding Judge Aileen Cannon thatthere are no DOJ...
“The stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” Judge Aileen Cannon wrote.
The opinion issued by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida granted him that, taking the virtually unprecedented steps of suspending the use of seized materials for the government’s investigation and instituting a special master. ...
Prosecutors had told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the restriction was necessary to protect law enforcement from potential threats and harassment after the presumptive Republican presidential nominee baselessly claimed that the Biden administration wanted to kill him...
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...