'Antagonistic' Judge Cannon might accidentally speed up Trump's D.C. trial: ex-prosecutor
Judge Aileen Cannon has been asked to reconsider her ruling that would expose confidential witnesses to the public and other information about the documents case.
Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that Cannon has clashed with special counsel Jack Smith throughout the course of the trial. He's already had her reversed twice by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, Donald Trump has a new filing asking for presidential immunity because he moved the documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago before he was officially out of office on Jan. 20, 2021.
"Often, we're concerned, because we don't want to feel like we're insulting the judge," Kirschner explained. "We don't want to feel like, well, if we fail at trying to remove a judge, then there's going to be this antagonism coming from the judge. I would ask, could Judge Cannon be any more antagonistic to Jack Smith? I don't think so, given the way she's been approaching the many issues that have come before her."
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So, he said he almost hopes that Cannon decides to abandon her May 20th trial date to delay over Trump's new filing. There's good reason for the wish, too.
"If she does that, and if the Supreme Court finally gets around to lifting the stay in the D.C. prosecution and returning that case to Judge [Tanya] Chutkan so she can set a trial date, guess what?" asked Kirschner. "There will be an open trial date on Donald Trump's calendar, and Judge Chutkan can drop her trial right into that May 20th trial date in the event Judge Cannon vacates that trial date. I, for one, would love to see it play out that way."
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