Aileen
Cannon
Judge
Aileen
Cannon
has
done
her
duty
by
not
doing
her
job.
It
was
clear
for
months
that
the
Trump-appointee
was
going
to
hold
this
trial
after
the
2024
election,
or
never
—
and
preferably
the
second.
She
spent
weeks
considering
idiotic
motions
and
holding
hearings
on
such
thorny
issues
as
“should
the
Mar-a-Lago
groundskeeper
who
is
charged
with
obstructing
the
grand
jury
be
allowed
to
see
the
highly
classified
evidence
his
boss
stole.”
Spoiler
alert:
No.
But
yesterday
she
made
it
official,
taking
the
stolen
documents
case
off
the
trial
calendar
entirely.
“The
Court
also
determines
that
finalization
of
a
trial
date
at
this
juncture—before
resolution
of
the
myriad
and
interconnected
pre-trial
and
[Classified
Informations
Procedures
Act]
issues
remaining
and
forthcoming—would
be
imprudent
and
inconsistent
with
the
Court’s
duty
to
fully
and
fairly
consider
the
various
pending
pre-trial
motions
before
the
Court,
critical
CIPA
issues,
and
additional
pretrial
and
trial
preparations
necessary
to
present
this
case
to
a
jury,”
she
wrote.
Citing
the
evidentiary
issues
under
CIPA
which
she
herself
has
failed
to
rule
on
as
a
reason
this
case
can’t
go
forward
is
pretty
ballsy.
On
November
3,
Judge
Cannon
stayed
the
November
15
deadline,
scheduling
a
hearing
for
March
1
to
argue
about
scheduling,
and
then,
after
the
hearing,
taking
an
additional
40
days
to
set
a
new
deadline
of
May
9.
As
Lawfare’s
Roger
Parloff
notes,
Trump
immediately
turned
around
and
asked
for
further
delay,
which
put
the
jurist
in
the
awkward
position
of
having
to
either
“reverse
herself
a
week
later
with
no
change
in
circumstances”
or
“deny
Trump
something
he
really
wants.”
But
of
course
she
chose
the
former,
taking
as
a
figleaf
Trump’s
feigned
indignation
that
the
stolen
government
documents
may
have
gotten
shuffled
around
in
the
boxes
as
they
were
being
removed
by
the
FBI,
because
the
order
of
said
documents
“constituted
exculpatory
information
relating
to,
inter
alia,
the
complete
absence
of
culpable
criminal
intent
by
President
Trump.”
In
her
most
recent
order,
officially
removing
the
May
20
trial
date
from
the
calendar,
Judge
Cannon
also
cited
the
“currently
pending
motions,
which
now
consist
of
eight
substantive
pretrial
motions,”
“extensive
defense
motions
to
compel
discovery
on
a
host
of
issues
spanning
hundreds
of
pages
of
classified
and
unclassified
briefing,”
as
well
as
Trump’s
motion
demanding
to
treat
the
entire
executive
branch,
including
the
White
House
Counsel’s
Office,
as
part
of
the
prosecution
team
for
discovery
purposes.
In
other
words,
she’s
let
Trump
and
his
henchmen
spam
the
docket
with
garbage
motions,
been
totally
dilatory
in
ruling
on
them,
and
is
now
allowing
the
defendants
to
reap
the
reward
from
their
bad
faith
behavior
by
postponing
the
trial.
She’s
even
set
a
hearing
for
June
21
on
the
Motion
to
Dismiss
Indictment
Based
on
Unlawful
Appointment
and
Funding
of
Special
Counsel,
a
throwaway
argument
being
bruited
about
by
Ed
Meese
and
Stephen
Calabresi
in
the
various
Trump
cases,
but curiously
absent
when
it
comes
to
David
Weiss
and
John
Durham,
i.e.
the
special
counsels
they
like.
Luckily,
the
nation’s
greatest
legal
mind
is
on
the
case!
Or
she
will
be
eventually.
Unless
this
case
gets
put
off
until
after
the
election,
and
then
gets
murdered
in
its
bed
on
January
21,
2025.
US
v.
Trump [SDFL
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via
Court
Listener]
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.