Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge overseeing former PresidentĀ Donald Trumpās classified documents case, ārepresents a special kind of governmental insanity,ā attorney and legal analystĀ 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 governmentās 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 āimprudentā to finalize the new trial date due to a āmyriad and interconnected pre-trialā issues remaining.
In a Saturday YouTube video on his channel in which he discussed the trialās postponement, Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. attorney and frequent critic of the former president, said that āJudgeĀ 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 committedā¦That represents a special kind of governmental insanity.ā In response to Cannonās move, he urged viewers to āroll up our sleeves and we can fill out and submit a judicial misconduct complaint form.ā
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Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge overseeing former President Donald Trumpās classified documents case, ārepresents a special kind of governmental insanity,ā 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 governmentās 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 ādeliberately slow-walking the case.ā
In his YouTube video, Kirschner said that Cannon āfailed 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.ā
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, āThis 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.ā
In the classified documents case, it has been clear that the trial would not start in May as Cannon ālet critical motions stack up and refused to rule,ā Vance wrote Sunday.
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