Jack Smith put Cannon 'on the spot' for potential removal: conservative George Conway
The Donald Trump-appointed judge's seat is sizzling.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has been accused of bias and incompetence for failing to get to trial after lengthy delays in the former president's criminal classified documents Espionage Act case, must act to protect law enforcement involved in the high-profile case.
If she falters, she could be yanked from the case.
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"I think the special counsel may use this as the opportunity to try to get the 11th Circuit to get rid of her," said conservative lawyer George Conway during an appearance on CNN. "So she's really on the spot here."
The 11th Circuit has already overruled Cannon embarrassingly twice.
A judge can be removed in the 11th Circuit if their conduct creates “the appearance of impropriety or a lack of impartiality in the mind of a reasonable member of the public.”
"She's actually going to have to do something... [and] she better because this is just this is just completely outrageous," Conway noted.
On Friday, Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a motion asking U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to "modify" the terms of former President Donald Trump's release in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case where he was indicted along with his valet Walt Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.
Specifically, Smith wants Cannon to stop the former president from espousing rhetoric that would endanger the lives of law enforcement officials involved in the case — which would be similar to the gag orders imposed on Trump in the federal January 6 case and the Manhattan hush money business falsifying documents case.
The request appears to be primarily a response to Trump promoting conspiracy theories that the FBI was authorized by President Joe Biden to assassinate him.
“BIDEN’S DOJ WAS AUTHORIZED TO SHOOT ME," reads the language posted by Trump on Truth Social. "Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.”
But it's been proven to be pure hysteria.
That's because the search warrant document executed at Mar-a-Lago was using boilerplate language that outlined the conditions under which they were authorized to use deadly force while executing the search.
Conway was gobsmacked by Trump's cry wolf tone.
"I mean, it is really an attempt to incite violence against government agents based on the complete pathological lie," he said. "It's a misreading and gross, just absolutely obscene misreading, of a standard document that limits the use of force."
The co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project also condemned the former president's campaign email that doubled down on the assassination threat even after it was disproven.
Conway said: "It just shows you the level of just moral depravity that Trump emanates and that surrounds him; I can't find the words to describe that level of depravity to send this message out."