Judge Cannon conjures a ‘myriad’ of excuses for postponing Trump’s stolen docs trial indefinitely
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. [Continue reading…]