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Aileen Cannon overseeing Trump case is "governmental insanity"—Attorney (www.newsweek.com)

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Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, "represents a special kind of governmental insanity," attorney and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on Saturday.

Trump is facing dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally keeping classified documents that he took with him after he left the White House in 2021 at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and then obstructing the government's efforts to get them back. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has denied wrongdoing.

Cannon, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, postponed the May 20 trial indefinitely on Tuesday.

In a five-page order, Cannon wrote that it would be "imprudent" to finalize the new trial date due to a "myriad and interconnected pre-trial" issues remaining.

In a Saturday YouTube video on his channel in which he discussed the trial's postponement, Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney and frequent critic of the former president, said that "Judge Aileen Cannon is single-handedly depriving the American people of our right to a fair and timely trial of Donald Trump on those most dangerous criminal offenses he committed...That represents a special kind of governmental insanity." In response to Cannon's move, he urged viewers to "roll up our sleeves and we can fill out and submit a judicial misconduct complaint form."

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[-] [email protected] 99 points 2 months ago

This is the case that is most relevant to his candidacy in my opinion. There is testimony to be heard that Trump provided classified information to Russian intelligence and sold classified submarine specifications to foreign investors. These are very serious allegations, and the public should know if they’re valid prior to charging him with the responsibility of confidentiality a second time.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I honestly don't think it would change anyone's mind at this point.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

What important is that the reality of his crimes be made public and on record. That one still supporting him afterwards is complicit in those crimes.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Anyone who still supports him after all of the shit he's said and done is complicit. It was clear from the beginning he was an asshole.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They were complicit in 2016. They’re indirectly responsible for millions of unnecessary covid deaths thanks to Trump’s delayed and botched response, lives lost during and after January 6th, and many other nasty events caused by orange hitler.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe, maybe not. I still believe we’re entitled to the result of the hearing prior to election.

[-] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Most of trumps legal issues have been like this. He's gotten special treatment every step of the way. If we ever needed a reminder that we have a two tier legal system, this is it.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago

The saddest part is that it will probably take a conviction in this trial for many US citizens to realize that Trump is not a viable presidential candidate. The state of American society is frightening.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Bold of you to think a conviction will convince them. More likely is them deciding it’s an attack of the Deep State on their God-Emperor, and they’ll vote even harder for him, or any Republican who promises to free him.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Tbh I don't even think that Trump will get convicted. The fact that he's still somehow at large makes me think that he and his henchmen built their own "Deep State" by now.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Every accusation is a confession.

The confession for this accusation is that the Court system is stacked with Conservative judges to push a Conservative agenda.

[-] Lucidlethargy 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This guy was put in power by strong Russian influence. It worked. Shame on the idiots who voted, and/or vote for him. It's so fucking obvious.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

The word they're looking for is 'corruption'.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Yea it’d be nice if that mattered…

The insanity is the entire judicial branch showing how completely corrupted it’s become and what little interest it has in policing itself.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Trump is facing dozens of felony counts accusing him of illegally keeping classified documents that he took with him after he left the White House in 2021 at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and then obstructing the government's efforts to get them back.

The move has also drawn blowback from Democrats, like Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who, according to The Hill on Thursday, said it appears that Cannon is "deliberately slow-walking the case."

In his YouTube video, Kirschner said that Cannon "failed to timely litigate and resolve some of the pre-trial motions that have been sitting there for months, and now due to her own sloth, at best, her inexcusable neglect, she needs to cancel the May 20th trial date."

Sharing a similar view, Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama under the Barack Obama administration, wrote in her newsletter, Civil Discourse, on Sunday, "This case could and should have been ready for trial in December or January if she had been working on the motions and realistic deadlines all along."

In the classified documents case, it has been clear that the trial would not start in May as Cannon "let critical motions stack up and refused to rule," Vance wrote Sunday.

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[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

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