Aileen Cannon Declines to Step Aside From Trump Suspect Case

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Source: Newsweek

Published Oct 29, 2024 at 4:13 PM EDT | Updated Oct 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM EDT


U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will not be recusing herself from overseeing the case involving a man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at his Florida golf club in September.

In a motion filed Tuesday, Cannon dismissed assertions that she has any "relationship" with the former president. The judge, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, has been accused of being partial to him, such as when this summer she dismissed the 40 federal felony charges against him in connection with his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.

"I have no control over what private citizens, members of the media, or public officials or candidates elect to say about me or my judicial rulings," Cannon wrote Tuesday. "Nor am I concerned about the political consequences of my rulings or how those rulings might be viewed by 'some in the media.'"

The defendant in Trump's assassination case, Ryan Wesley Routh, had filed for Cannon to remove herself from his case. Routh is accused of planning to shoot the GOP presidential nominee at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach on September 15 after he was spotted by Secret Service agents pointing a rifle in Trump's direction from the golf course's boundary.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-declines-step-aside-trump-suspect-case-1976874

[dchill]

1. She seems nice.

[Clouds Passing]

2. Loose Cannon blowing out more BS

[Captain Zero]

4. Is she filing all her financial reports?

Are we looking at them?

[Autumn]

3. She dismissed the 40 federal felony charges agaibnst him. Doesn't that finish

her part in the case? Fuck that magat.

[getagrip_already]

7. Different case, different defendent

This guy is accused of trying to kill tsf.

The appeal should be interesting.

[slightlv]

9. This is what I was going to say...

the appeal is all but guaranteed with this decision by Cannon, especially if she's not disciplined or removed from the Docs case by the Circuit...

[Fullduplexxx]

10. when is that appeal ? any idea?

[onenote]

20. Depends. Some courts only allow appeals of recusal decisions after the case is completed.

The better view, imo, and the one taken in a growing number of courts, is to allow an "interlocutory" appeal before final judgment where the issue is whether a judge should have granted a motion to recuse before the trial began. I haven't found an 11th circuit case addressing this question.

[Fullduplexxx]

21. Thank you for that

[Autumn]

23. I clicked the link and when I scrolled it went to this and I wasn't paying attention

I really dislike Newsweek.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-aileen-cannon-jack-smith-classified-documents-case-appeal-11th-circuit-florida-1976036

[Harker]

5. All in. n/t

[WestMichRad]

6. Did any of us actually expect her to recuse?

I sure as hell didn’t.

How could she defend the victim if she were to step aside?
(Do I need a sarcasm emoji there?)

[onenote]

13. I didn't. I don't think the case for her rescuing was particularly strong.

[getagrip_already]

24. This is stupid on her part.....

The guy has no case. Any judge will do a good job and he will be convicted on the evidence.

She could have taken the high ground and said she was avoiding even the appearance of a conflict. That would have helped with the doc case appeal where they might very well take it away from her.

Just stupid. She has to see tsf is losing and she will never be ag.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Stepford.wife

[hadEnuf]

11. This stinking MAGAT partisan son of a bitch really needs to be forced out.

There must be something on this MAGA robot enough to get rid of her.

[NikoGriego]

17. She is not a son...

Judge Cannon is not a "son" of a bitch. Maybe a daughter of one, though.

[hadEnuf]

18. Yeah, she's that too!

[Marcuse]

12. Cannon's failure to recuse makes perfect sense if the intent was a close miss (again).

[Grins]

14. Flipping it...

"Nor am I concerned about the political consequences of my rulings or how those rulings might be viewed by 'some in the media.'"

Judge Tanya Chutkan on the other hand…

[4lbs]

15. She shows every day that she does not understand the term "Conflict of Interest"

Looks like a federal appeals court will have to show her what it means.

[Nasruddin]

16. Sure she does

She runs towards them, not away

[bdamomma]

19. The end

goal for her is the Supreme Court. Another sycophant for the felon.

[BlueKota]

22. Why do we think we still have a justice system

when she and the 6 facist enablers on the SC are allowed to enable the tsf and his followers to do anything they want? Refuse to follow any norms themselves? I know this is a separate case from the documents one, but it just proves they don't even have the common decency or morals to remove themselves from cases where their conflict of interest is clear.