FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A federal prosecutor in the classified documents case of Donald Trump clashed with the judge Monday as he faced skeptical questioning over a request to bar the former president from making threatening comments about law enforcement agents involved in the investigation. Special counsel Jack Smith’s team is seeking to make … Read more
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb spotted a move that’d spell trouble for U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday as he offered a brutal assessment of former President Donald Trump’s appointee overseeing his classified documents case. “The worst thing that could happen to her is that she actually does rule for Trump on … Read more
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Donald Trump appointee assigned to his classified documents case, rejected calls from more experienced judges to step aside from the case, The New York Times reported Thursday. Two of Cannon’s more seasoned colleagues on the federal bench in Florida, including the chief judge in the state’s southern district, reportedly … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and two of his associates denied a request Monday to dismiss some of the charges in the indictment. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon did agree to strike a paragraph from the indictment that defense lawyers said was … Read more
Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb on Wednesday slammed U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s refusal to hear — until later this month — special counsel Jack Smith’s request to place a gag order on Donald Trump in the former president’s classified documents case. “I don’t think I find anything she does surprising at this … Read more
A former Florida judge said U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon had mishandled former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case from the jump and scolded her for her “sheer incompetence” after added delays to a case where the trial has already been postponed indefinitely. Cannon, a Trump appointee, tweaked the court schedule to include a … Read more
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