Judge Aileen Cannon has been criticized over the past several days for a rookie move confusing a court rule with a procedure.
Cannon reprimanded federal prosecutors for flagging that there is an ongoing battle for scheduling between the Florida case and the other federal case in Washington, D.C. But when doing so, she cited the wrong rule relating to something completely different. It has drawn mockery and further questions about Cannon being in over her head for one of the most important cases in the United States.
"We routinely advised the two judges who had the [Paul] Manafort criminal cases of filings made in the other case," said Andrew Weissmann, who was the senior prosecutor on Robert Mueller's Russia probe team. "That was an obligation we felt to both judges and a courtesy. Not once were we criticized for doing so. Cannon has to be removed whether too novice or too partisan or both."
Former federal prosecutor Harry Litman agreed with Weissmann's assessment, but noted it doesn't matter whether she's all-in for Trump. Cannon can't handle the case.
"Biased or not, Cannon simply doesn’t have game; and she masks it with prickly remonstrations of the government," Litman wrote in a post on X, formerly Twitter. "She needs to go back to judges’ school, except there isn’t such a place. (yes, I know about the little orientation course, but that’s not what I mean.)"
