Who Is Aileen Cannon, the Judge in Trump’s Documents Case?
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Trump’s classified documents case has slowed to a crawl as issues continue to pile up. Have you ever prayed for the judge overseeing this case?
From The Wall Street Journal. The prosecution of Donald Trump over his retention of classified documents has moved so slowly that some legal observers have questioned whether the judge overseeing the case is in over her head.
Have you taken your place on the wall?
The actions of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, from her courthouse two hours north of Miami, have only added to the mystery. …
Trump’s legal team has filed a stream of long-shot arguments, and the number of unresolved issues is piling up, with no trial date in sight. …
Complicated case, unusual circumstances
Cannon, 43 years old, has presided over the case since Smith charged Trump last June, alleging that he held on to sensitive government secrets, shared them with others and directed his staff to help him evade authorities’ efforts to retrieve them. The case presents a potent trifecta: a former president as the defendant, classified government secrets as evidence, and the glare of public scrutiny.
The highest-profile case in South Florida is playing out somewhat improbably in Fort Pierce, where Cannon sits as the only district judge in a gleaming white courthouse that hulks over the slow-paced downtown. …
Without colleagues down the hall, Cannon also lacks routine, informal interactions with longer-tenured jurists who might have provided mentorship, lawyers who practice in the district said. …
Cannon also lost a law clerk who quit midterm, a move that is rare for young lawyers who take on the prestigious posts for a year after finishing law school. …
Big jump to the bench
Trump nominated Cannon, a graduate of Duke University and the University of Michigan Law School, to the federal bench during the last year of his presidency. The Senate confirmed her in a 56-21 vote shortly after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. …
… She joined the conservative Federalist Society while in law school, and after graduation, did a three-year stint in private practice before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney in Florida. … She spent most of her years as a government attorney working on appeals, defending criminal convictions and sentences.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio contacted her in 2019 to express interest in considering her for a judicial seat. She was nominated at age 39. Her selection surprised some in the South Florida legal community, where she was viewed as having less trial experience than a typical nominee for district court. …
Frustration runs both ways
Cannon was under scrutiny even before she was assigned the Trump prosecution. During the government’s investigation, she oversaw a civil lawsuit the former president brought over the FBI’s search of his South Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, where agents found classified documents. Cannon granted Trump’s request for a third-party review of the recovered documents, disrupting the investigation until a three-judge appeals panel overturned her.
The panel unanimously rebuked Cannon’s legal reasoning and said there was no justification for treating Trump differently from any other target of a search warrant.
Cannon has a formal, all-business approach in her courtroom, and can be prickly with both prosecutors and defense lawyers, lawyers in South Florida said. …
In the Trump case, Cannon’s frustration has been most visible with prosecutors. Last year, she scolded prosecutors for “frankly wasting the court’s time” by raising arguments at a hearing that they hadn’t previously made in court filings. …
Tensions recently emerged anew when prosecutors asked Cannon to issue a gag order barring Trump from making statements that could endanger law-enforcement agents involved in the case.
Cannon initially denied the request on procedural grounds, saying prosecutors hadn’t shown the “professional courtesy” of adequately conferring with Trump’s lawyers in advance.
Prosecutors later doubled down on the request, which Cannon will consider Monday.
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(Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America – Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66881638)
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I thank God for Judge Cannon. In a system that is proving more and more to be corrupted, it is nice to see a judge that is actually weighing all the facts.
Who is to say that the fast pace everyone else does is the correct way? It would seem that things can move faster if the judge already made up her mind (or had it made for her) before the case was ever presented.
I am glad that there are no other influences in the court because they may not be of good counsel.
I pray for her because she is standing when so many other judges (all the way up to the Supreme Court) appear to have agendas or are compromised in some way.
She shows courage like Deborah. May she lead the way for others to step into their roles as judges in an impartial way
Dear Lord God Almighty, I pray Your will be done here on earth as it is in Heaven. Give Judge Cannon wisdom and protection. Your Court is the highest Court. You sit enthroned above it all. Once again dear Lord let it be Your divine will that gets executed here on earth. Bless President Donald John Trump. I believe Your Hand of Grace covers him. In Jesus’ Name I pray and I give You thanks from a grateful heart.
Heavenly Father, I ask you to protect Judge Cannon and her family. Grant her wisdom to make just and right decisions. We ask this in Jesus’s name.
We pray that You undergird Judge Cannon the same as You did Gideon – the same as You choose Gideon – the same as You protected Gideon – we ask for truth’s victory – in Jesus Name.
Dear Father: I pray for this judge and all the judges you have allowed to be in positions of authority for I know you alone are in control. I pray that their hearts and minds will be so convicted by you that they will be stirred and forced to deliver honest and fair judgments. That the truths will come out and not be hidden. I pray they will not be able to continue blocking truths or spinning lies into unfair sentences. You alone administer fair and righteous judgment and I ask you to make the Judges in these recent trumped up cases have to do likewise and to bend to Your WILL.
Lord, guide this judge to judge righteously and with sound legal judgment.