Judge Cannon is 'shy' about a Trump case appeals review after several 'bad outings'

Taking a break from talking about President Joe Biden's poor debate performance on Thursday night, the "Morning Joe" crew on MSNBC pressed former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance on what is happening in Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom and why the Donald Trump trial has yet to begin.

According to the former prosecutor, Cannon is engaged in needless stalling likely because she doesn't want to have her conduct scrutinized by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

"She's got motions that have been fully briefed and argued in front of her. One of them is the prosecution's motion to change Donald Trump's conditions of pretrial release, so that he can't continue to spread this lie that he's been perpetuating, saying the FBI was trying to assassinate him when they executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago," Vance began. "Even Trump's own lawyer was forced to concede in court this week that that simply wasn't the case."

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"Look, the judge has plenty of information in front of her," she later added. "The job that every federal judge has and every state court judge has is to make a decision; she seems to be incapable of doing that, perhaps because, at least in this matter, as soon as she does, the party that loses will take her decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for appellate review."

"She seems to be very shy about letting any more of her decisions go there," Vance suggested. "She's had two very bad outings in front of that court."

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