Aileen Cannon has been 'overseeing a fraud case with extraordinary parallels to Trump's': report

Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney has published a deep dive into Judge Aileen Cannon's judicial record and has found that she's spent more than a year working on what he describes as "a fraud case with extraordinary parallels to Trump's."

The case in question is a 10-defendant healthcare fraud trial that features many of the procedural issues that she will in all likelihood be asked to rule on in the upcoming criminal case against former President Donald Trump, including the piercing of attorney-client privilege and an attempt by defendants to suppress certain evidence taken from personal devices.

And what's particularly notable about this, says Cheney, is how often she has sided with prosecutors.

"Among her more recent rulings in the case: A decision in favor of federal prosecutors, rejecting a claim by the defendants that the government had failed to turn over exculpatory material," Cheney writes. "She has also sided with the government on a defendant’s demand for access to grand jury transcripts, on a defendant’s motion to suppress information seized from his email accounts and on defendants’ motion to dismiss charges."

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Cannon became controversial after she issued opinions last year that critics called unprecedentedly deferential to former President Donald Trump and resulted in her getting a stinging rebuke from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned her decision to block the government from using top secret documents as part of its investigation.

Read Cheney's full analysis of Cannon's work at this link.