Legal analyst Joyce Vance questioned why Judge Cannon continues to issue orders when the case has been dismissed.
Federal Judge Aileen Cannon ordered a Friday hearing to discuss releasing a DOJ report in the dismissed classified document case against Donald Trump.
The judge denied a request to block the release of Smith's report on Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Judge Aileen Cannon has devoted the past few weeks to striving to ensure that special counsel Jack Smith’s two-volume report on Donald Trump’s criminal activities would not see the light of day. Despite Cannon’s best efforts,
Cannon’s ruling stated that Garland, the Department of Justice, Smith, and “all of their officers, agents, and employees, and all persons acting in active concert or participation with such individuals” could not publish any part of the report until three days after the Eleventh Circuit ruled on the case.
Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida stepped back on Monday from an earlier ruling that purported
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has issued some wildly indefensible decisions in favor of Donald Trump, the president who appointed her. She singlehande
Judge Aileen Cannon has triggered outrage among legal experts for purporting to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's reports on the criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, given that she likely surrendered jurisdiction of the classified documents case when she dismissed it and the appeal went to the 11th Circuit.
Judge Aileen Cannon gave Attorney General Merrick Garland the green light on Monday to release special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his 2020 election subversion case against President-elect Donald Trump.
"It's not clear to folks like me ... whether she has that jurisdiction," MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin said Tuesday.
Ty Cobb, a former lawyer in the first Trump White House, did not hold back on U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon after she blocked the release of a Department of Justice report. The post Former Trump White House Lawyer Calls Judge Aileen Cannon ‘A Stain’ on the Judiciary After She Blocks Release of Smith Report first appeared on Mediaite.
Cannon is different. She is not just Trumpy. She is Trump in a black robe. She appears to believe that the law exists solely to further the president-elect’s political goals and her own ...