As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal
[The Washington Post]: Judge indefinitely delays Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida U.S. Judge Aileen M. Cannon said there are too many pre-trial issues to address to set a new trial date now By Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett
Aileen Cannon has made official what has been obvious for some time. She has no intention of moving forward on Donald Trump’s stolen documents trial with any kind of order or speed. Instead, she will entertain every one of his frivolous motions for months and months and months.
#Trump’s #Florida trial for mishandling #ClassifiedDocuments & #obstruction of govt efforts to retrieve them has been pushed back indefinitely, #AileenCannon ruled Tues, increasing the chance that Trump’s NY #criminal trial may be the ONLY ONE to happen before the #election.
The judge originally set the trial for late May & heard arguments on March 1 about when it should be — w/Trump’s lawyers pushing for after the election, or no earlier than Aug.
“The Court also determines that finalization of a trial date at this juncture—before resolution of the myriad & interconnected pre-trial & #CIPA issues remaining & forthcoming—would be imprudent & inconsistent w/the Court’s duty to fully & fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions before the Court, critical CIPA issues, & additional pretrial & trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury” #AileenCannon wrote.
Ridiculous that #AileenCannon says that there are "novel & difficult" #CIPA issues when her delays have meant the CIPA issues have barely been considered by the court. The only section of CIPA she has considered was §4, which is straightforward.
#NealKatyal says while #JackSmithcould appeal #AileenCannon’s decision, it’s unlikely that he will. The writ of mandamus standard is too high a bar for removal & #DOJ is loathe to cast aspersions on any judge.
He’s more optimistic about the possibility of #Trump’s #Jan6 case getting scheduled now that the #ClassifiedDocuments case is indefinitely delayed.
US District Court Judge #AileenCannon agreed Tuesday to end a long-running dispute w/prosecutors over whether government-agent witnesses in #Trump’s #ClassifiedDocuments#criminal#trial should be publicly identified in court filings.
Her order was the 2nd time this month she has criticized #DOJ lawyers while ruling mostly in their favor.