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If Judge Cannon has any kind of ethics, she should recuse herself from this case?!!
A chorus of legal experts is calling for District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to recuse herself from former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges relating to his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
A Trump appointee, Cannon drew widespread condemnation for her rulings in Trump’s favor during the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s retention of national security information at his private residence and social club in Palm Beach, Fla.
Richard Painter, the White House chief ethics lawyer under George W. Bush; Norman Eisen, who occupied the same position for Barack Obama; and Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan, good government advocacy organization, wrote in an article in Slate that Cannon “must recuse herself from the case.”
“Judge Cannon’s prior, fundamentally erroneous approach casts a shadow over the proceedings,” the bipartisan trio wrote. “Because her earlier handling of this case went well outside the judicial norm and was roundly criticized by the Court of Appeals, reasonable observers of this case could question her impartiality.
Why was Cannon chosen in the first place?
On Friday, when Trump’s indictment was unsealed, experts inferred that Cannon had been assigned because she had already overseen Trump’s lawsuit demanding the appointment of a “special master” to block government access to documents over which Trump claims executive privilege.
But on Saturday evening, the chief clerk of the Southern District of Florida told the New York Times that Cannon was also assigned randomly to the criminal trial. Judges have certain geographic areas they cover, so Cannon draws 50% of the cases in the West Palm Beach, Fla., courthouse, the clerk said.
Opposition grows
Federal prosecutors, including many Republicans and even Trump’s own former attorney general, William Barr, sharply criticized Cannon’s handling of Trump’s lawsuit, which they considered frivolous.
The special master Cannon appointed said he was “perplexed” by Trump’s assertion of executive privilege over classified documents after he had left office. Cannon’s decision was overturned and Trump’s lawsuit was dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which included two judges who were also appointed by Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/calls-gr...erself-in-trump-documents-case-195348307.html
A chorus of legal experts is calling for District Court Judge Aileen Cannon to recuse herself from former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges relating to his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House.
A Trump appointee, Cannon drew widespread condemnation for her rulings in Trump’s favor during the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s retention of national security information at his private residence and social club in Palm Beach, Fla.
Richard Painter, the White House chief ethics lawyer under George W. Bush; Norman Eisen, who occupied the same position for Barack Obama; and Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan, good government advocacy organization, wrote in an article in Slate that Cannon “must recuse herself from the case.”
“Judge Cannon’s prior, fundamentally erroneous approach casts a shadow over the proceedings,” the bipartisan trio wrote. “Because her earlier handling of this case went well outside the judicial norm and was roundly criticized by the Court of Appeals, reasonable observers of this case could question her impartiality.
Why was Cannon chosen in the first place?
On Friday, when Trump’s indictment was unsealed, experts inferred that Cannon had been assigned because she had already overseen Trump’s lawsuit demanding the appointment of a “special master” to block government access to documents over which Trump claims executive privilege.
But on Saturday evening, the chief clerk of the Southern District of Florida told the New York Times that Cannon was also assigned randomly to the criminal trial. Judges have certain geographic areas they cover, so Cannon draws 50% of the cases in the West Palm Beach, Fla., courthouse, the clerk said.
Opposition grows
Federal prosecutors, including many Republicans and even Trump’s own former attorney general, William Barr, sharply criticized Cannon’s handling of Trump’s lawsuit, which they considered frivolous.
The special master Cannon appointed said he was “perplexed” by Trump’s assertion of executive privilege over classified documents after he had left office. Cannon’s decision was overturned and Trump’s lawsuit was dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which included two judges who were also appointed by Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/calls-gr...erself-in-trump-documents-case-195348307.html
