Lawyers who appeared before Judge Aileen Cannon had some sharp critiques of how she oversaw the courtroom.
Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over Donald Trump’s classified documents case, may be in over her head due to a serious lack of experience, according to a new report from CNN.
The news outlet spoke to 10 attorneys who had cases before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida—and they painted a picture of a judge with limited trial experience, who’s prone to getting bogged down by irrelevant legal questions and struggles to manage her docket of cases efficiently.
Before Trump appointed her to the federal bench in 2020, Cannon was an attorney in the Justice Department for seven years and only took part in four criminal trials. In her four years as a judge, she hasn’t presided over many criminal cases either—and attorneys said it shows.
“She just seems overwhelmed by the process,” one lawyer told CNN. Other lawyers said that she lets small, marginal issues overwhelm the major details of cases. She also has rejected joint motions, agreed upon by both parties in a case with no dispute.
Yeah this isn’t exactly surprising. What would surprise me would be if someone managed to find a reich-winger who was competent and also not a sadistic psychopath, but I’m not going to be holding my breath waiting for that discovery – I expect someone will find an actual literal unicorn first
It is not surprising to us but you should not discount or disarm the outrage people should feel. This is unethical inexcusable behavior and you are helping normalize it.
How is it “normalizing” fuck-all to imply that all conservatives are immoral and either incompetent or psychopaths? They fucking are, anybody can see that; saying it out loud isn’t “discounting or disarming the outrage people should feel”. Go clutch your pearls somewhere else