Aileen Cannon

Aileen Cannon ist Richterin im Miami Indictment
Aileen, all sec names Aileen Mercedes, Cannon (Jg./born 1981) is Judge in the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, a two-hour drive north of Miami. When she was assigned to the case … 
The judge in the classified documents case against Donald Trump rejected her two colleagues’ private suggestions to step aside. She was appointed by Trump, and has repeatedly entertained far-fetched arguments from his legal team.
;July 15, 20024:
:Judge Cannon has dismissed the US justice department's classified documents case against Donald Trump in a huge victory for the former president just days after a gunman attempted to assassinate him. Judge Cannon granted Trump's motion to dismiss the federal case on the basis that the justice department's appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution. 
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Special counsel Jack Smith said Wednesday that he is appealing a judge’s decision to throw out the indictment against Donald Trump concerning his handling of classified documents. The special counsel team filed a notice of appeal, the initial procedural mechanism that sets the appeal in motion, on Wednesday, just two days after US District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the prosecution and well ahead of the 30-day deadline the prosecutors faced for bringing the appeal. 20240505-judge-aileen-cannon-rough-final.jpg RELATED ARTICLE Aileen Cannon’s nuking of the Trump documents case continues her trend of embracing long-shot legal theories This means the shock ruling would be reviewed by judges from the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals based in Atlanta. 
;june 27, 2024:
: Judge Aileen Cannon wants to hold additional hearings on Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge key evidence in his classified documents case and will allow the former president’s lawyers to question witnesses about the investigation and search of Mar-a-Lago. On Thursday, the Florida-based judge said in a new order that she wants more evidence about the language in the FBI warrant used to seize classified records from Mar-a-Lago in 2022 and about grand jury testimony from Trump’s former attorney, Evan Corcoran. Those issues were argued in hearings on Tuesday, but Cannon did not rule on the matters. The judge did not say when additional hearings would be held.
::"The Court is convinced that Special Counsel’s Smith’s prosecution of this action breaches two structural cornerstones of our constitutional scheme—the role of Congress in the appointment of constitutional officers, and the role of Congress in authorizing expenditures by law,” Judge Cannon concluded in her 93-page order.
* article in the NYT, 20-06-2024
At the time Cannon was assigned the high-profile criminal case, she had already faced public backlash – and a major reversal by an appeals court – over her handling of the lawsuit Trump brought challenging the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022, when agents found hundreds of classified documents scattered about the property.
Since then, Cannon has repeatedly raised eyebrows among legal scholars for her approach. Critics of the judge say that she has slowed the pace of the case to a near standstill, making a pre-election trial essentially out of reach.
=== Weblinks === 
* https://www.flsd.uscourts.gov/district-judges 
* History of the Federal Judiciary: http://www.fjc.gov - Web site of the Federal Judicial Center, Washington, DC.
* cnn.com/2024/07/17/ on Appeal
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