On July 29, 2020, a hearing was held before the United States Judiciary Committee.[20] Law360 reported that Cannon "avoided scrutiny" during her July 2020 Senate confirmation hearing as the senators "took it easy" on her
"Aileen Cannon, the federal judge handling Trump’s trial over possessing classified documents, denied a request from prosecutors
to impose a gag order, .
after the former president claimed that justice department agents were authorized to kill him. '
May 2024, NPR reported that Cannon had violated internal judiciary rules and federal ethics law when she did not timely disclose that in 2021 and 2022, she was privately reimbursed when attending two legal seminars ("Sage Lodge Colloquium") at a
luxury resort in Montana
organized by George Mason University, and only disclosed it when NPR enquired about the matter;
Cannon's court clerk responded by blaming the missing information on "inadvertent" technical issues. Cannon was reimbursed by the university's
Antonin Scalia Law School,
which has been described by The New York Times as an intended paragon of "conservative legal scholarship and influence.
the case of Paul Vernon Hoeffer, a 60-year-old man from Palm Beach Gardens who pleaded guilty to making death threats against three Democrats: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and prosecutor Kim Foxx, with federal sentencing guidelines recommending 33 and 41 months in prison, and prosecutors proposing 41 months, Cannon in April 2022 sentenced Hoeffer to only 18 months in prison and then three years of supervised release, and also fined him just $2,000.
In a 2023 federal trial of an Alabama man accused of running a child pornography website,
Cannon closed the jury selection to the public on the basis of space restrictions and also failed to swear in the jury.
This was described as "a fundamental constitutional error" by legal experts.
According to court transcripts from June 12, 2023, Cannon was repeatedly asked by both prosecutors and the defense attorney to open the courtroom.
The public defense attorney objected to closing the courtroom, arguing that doing so violates the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, which Cannon overruled.
She was forced to restart the jury selection process before the trial ended in a plea bargain without the jury deliberating.
The courtroom in which this took place is the same one in which the 2024 criminal trial United States v. Trump is set to take place,
which prompted concern from one legal scholar about how Cannon will handle
space restriction"
The Eleventh Circuit found that under Cannon "the district court stepped in with its own reasoning" multiple times to argue in favor of Trump, sometimes even taking positions that Trump did not argue before the appeals court.
Eleventh Circuit also found that when Trump did not explain what materials he still needed to return, or why, the "district court was undeterred by this lack of information".
The National Law Journal wrote that the Eleventh Circuit's decision "reads as a rebuke of" Cannon,
with New York University law professor Peter M. Shane commenting that
"[i]f an appellate court tells a lower court that we can only accept your judgment by
betraying one of the nation’s founding principles,
that's a pretty strong rebuke."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Cannon
"Sep 17, 2013. The Donald J. Trump Foundation makes a $25,000 contribution to And Justice for All,
a political group backing Bondi.
The donation, illegal for a 501(c)(3) private foundation to give, was personally
solicited by Bondi from Trump.
Nov 4, 2016"
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When Judge Aileen Cannon, a federal judge with only three years of experience on the bench, issued her latest order in the criminal classified documents case on Monday, legal observers were dumbfounded.
The national security attorney Bradley Moss posted on X that her instructions were “legally insane”.
Attorney George Conway, a leading #NeverTrump conservative, responded by calling it “utterly nuts”.
The former US attorney Joyce Vance called it “two pages of crazy” and wrote that she had to read the order multiple times to try to figure out what it means.
“Not only should Aileen Cannon not be sitting on this case, but she should not be sitting on the federal bench at all,” Conway posted.
Cannon’s Monday order told Trump’s attorneys and the justice department’s special counsel’s office to
prepare potential jury instructions for legal scenarios that, as Guardian US reporter Hugo Lowell writes,
“gave extraordinary credit to Trump’s defense theories”
and “were so beneficial to Trump and so potentially incorrect
on the law of the Espionage Act
that it would bring into serious doubt whether it made sense for prosecutors to take the case to trial”.
Cannon, age 43, became a federal judge in late 2020 after being appointed to the federal bench by Donald Trump, then the president. That’s not much time to actually learn the job,
Georgia judge Scott McAfee, a 34-year-old who’s overseeing the case Willis has been working on and was appointed to the bench just over a year ago.
And McAfee’s Wednesday decision to let Trump appeal his order means that Georgia’s court of appeals now has 45 days to consider the appeal – another delay. If the court agrees to overrule McAfee and force Willis off the case, it could be stalled indefinitely. '
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/21/trump-on-trial-comedy-of-errors
'Fascism isn’t a day job,” says historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
It requires people to show that they “scorn and discredit and delegitimize the institutions of democracy.”
She points out that all of these things are all “purposeful” and “connected” acts, and people should pay attention.
“The more you know about fascism, its aesthetics, its ideologies, the more you know about what’s going on.”
She joins host Charles Coleman Jr. and Washington Post Opinion Writer Jennifer Rubin to discuss Trump’s attacks on democracy."
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"Heading to Lower Manhattan, the Courthouse,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
“Seems so SURREAL – WOW, they are going to ARREST ME.” Trump arrived
to be fingerprinted and processed via his own eight-car motorcade.'.
***
Donald Trump is a serial liar,
cheater, and philanderer
, a six-time declarer of corporate bankruptcy,
an instigator of insurrection,
and a convicted felon
who thrives on portraying himself as a victim,”
Phillips wrote on XXX, formerly Twatler.
“[Hochul] should castrate him for the good of the country.”
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