Judge Cannon has appeared confused by basic legal concepts and indulged the Trump defense team’s wildest arguments
Over the course of seven public hearings related to Donald Trump’s classified documents case, a picture has emerged of Judge Aileen Cannon sometimes appearing prepared for legal questions but at other times having difficulty comprehending even the simplest concepts.
In the view of prosecutors and several legal experts, her tendency to repeatedly ask the same question or miss the point of an argument is proof that the Trump-appointed judge is ill-suited to handle a trial that has already been delayed, repeatedly, by her willingness to grant hearings over the Trump team’s most far-fetched requests. The case’s slow progress, they argue, plays into Trump’s strategy of pushing it past Election Day, and then, if elected, stopping it from ever happening.
Conservatives can’t be trusted to serve in public positions. They will literally always ditch their principles – if they ever had any in the first place – to serve their political goals, naturally claiming that this is what “the left” does so it’s OK for then to do it too
edit: this is why any sort of jury trial for Trump is probably doomed to fail. Any conservative jurors will favor him no matter what, and will absolutely lie about their plans to do so in the selection process
revenge of the edit: so the NY conviction was by a jury, happy surprise
Did you see trump was convicted on all counts in the NY false documents trial?
I was surprised too…
I just hadn’t realized it was a jury trial, but that’s definitely a positive surprise
New York yes, because Florida our Georgia will be much harder to get a conviction out of a jury.
Facts are facts bro. New York was a jury trial and the Trump team HELPED SELECT THE JURORS. This is exactly how the unbiased system is supposed to work.
Yeah, we’ll see bub.
Yes we will princess.
I just think she is lacking intelligence.
Well she is a conservative… Are you surprised?
Legal experts think she is trying to help Trump. Imma go with their opinions on this one.
She is also stupid though.
Of course she is, but she’s also clearly favoring Trump.
I dunno the general opinion seemed to be that she was a competent, if not particularly outstanding, judge before she started getting Trump’s cases. Looks like a pretty cut and dried case of bias to me, presumably with an eye to getting a(nother) leg up in her career if he becomes president again to add a little spice of blatant corruption to the mix.
they might lie, but are they intelligent enough not to get caught? extremely unlikely. Conservatives are always super responsive to fear (because their amygdalas are wired wrong and prevent them from being creative and empathetic) so the smurt ones are going to be deterred by the consequences, and the ones who have nothing to lose are going to conceive of themselves as martyrs and believe they are innocent even though that’s not what their church is probably telling them.
I think there’s relatively little risk of this.
And jury selection can always try to find the few conservatives who do have a backbone. I’m sure they have to exist, despite all appearances
The fresh round of 34 convictions was from a jury trial. Get jury selection right and he’s toast
Oh damn, was it? I’m actually surprised at that
To be conservative is to be derivative and uncreative, unempathetic and lacking the ability to even conceive of another person’s perspective without including the totality of their own, and because of all this they tend to come up with rationalizations for why the world is the way it is rather than actually trying to change it.
All of these are forms of intelligence. To be conservative is to be unintelligent. If your amygdala is so wired for fear that you can’t even think about shit, then just accept what you are (less) and stop yelling over the rest of us, ye screeching gibbons.
That’s an interesting headline at that link. It reads to me basically as “liberals are better equipped to deal with the unfiltered real world” which tracks IMO.
Haven’t people said there’s a way for Jack Smith to appeal for a different judge if it’s shown she isn’t doing her job? Why hasn’t he done that?
Because it is a Hail Mary option. He can appeal but doing so unsuccessfully ensures that Cannon switches from this passive help of the defense to being outright against the prosecution which makes things harder than they already are. A successful appeal still creates a delay in the trial because the new judge has to get up to speed.
I think at this point she’s already shown that she IS outright against the prosecution.
So he’s basically stuck between a rock and a heard place. Lovely. Florida justice.
It’s not like she is already against prosecution. I don’t believe it could be any more partisan than it already is.
As for delay her last ruling essentially made it indefinite.
But they can’t do anything about it, right?
That, right there, calls the entire legal-profession & “justice” system into contempt of justice.
“Checks & Balances” are supposed to prevent ideological highjacking of the judiciary, right?
Obviously, it was all pretend, all “nudge nudge wink wink” “checks & balances”.
The legal profession either will finish giving totalitarianism the leverage it needs to exterminate civil-rights,
XOR ( exclusive-OR ) it will get rewritten in ways that prevent such obscenity from wearing the legal-profession & calling itself “justice”.
I’m not holding my breath for the Justice solution: incumbent lobby/interest groups wouldn’t ever allow integrity to crimp their style, would they?
