Tag Archives: Aileen Cannon

NBC News reports: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted a request from Donald Trump’s former co-defendants to stop the Justice Department from sharing special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents report with members of Congress. “In short, the Department offers no valid justification for the purportedly urgent desire to release to members of Congress case information in an ongoing criminal proceeding,” …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge said Monday that the Justice Department can release special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump, is latest back and forth in a court dispute over the report from the special …

The Washington Post reports: The federal judge in Florida who dismissed the case against Donald Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report detailing the findings of that investigation by special counsel Jack Smith. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon barred Smith and Attorney General Merrick Garland from “releasing, sharing, or …

ABC News reports: A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump’s campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump’s classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News. Cannon’s name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled “Transition Planning: Legal Principals,” …

CNN reports: The man accused of perching behind a chain-linked fence bordering Donald Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle, allegedly waiting for a clear shot at the former president, is asking the judge overseeing the case to recuse herself. Judge Aileen Cannon, who also presided over Trump’s classified documents case and ultimately decided to dismiss it, was randomly assigned …

ProPublica reports: Judge Aileen M. Cannon has shown bias in handling criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and should be reversed and removed from the case to “preserve the appearance of justice,” a public interest group argued in a legal filing on Tuesday. The brief filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and joined by a retired …

Axios reports: Hunter Biden’s legal team has requested the dismissal of cases against him in Delaware and California citing the “unconstitutional” appointment of special counsel David Weiss. Judge Aileen Cannon, the heavily scrutinized judge handling former President Trump’s federal classified documents case in Florida, dismissed Trump’s indictment Monday using the same justification as Biden’s attorneys: the unconstitutional appointment of the …

CNBC reports: Special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday filed a notice appealing the stunning decision earlier this week by Florida court federal Judge Aileen Cannon that dismissed the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. Smith’s appeal, which was expected, will be heard in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, which reviews cases arising from …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. Hours later, special counsel Jack Smith’s office said it would appeal the order, which could result in it eventually …

CNN reports: Judge Aileen Cannon has dismissed the classified documents case against Donald Trump. In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution. “In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” Cannon …

The Washington Post reports: U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon said Thursday that she will hold a hearing for Donald Trump’s lawyers to challenge some of the evidence gathered against him for alleged mishandling of classified documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. In an 11-page order, the judge said that “further factual development is warranted” when it comes …

The New York Times reports: Shortly after Judge Aileen M. Cannon drew the assignment in June 2023 to oversee former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case, two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida urged her to pass it up and hand it off to another jurist, according to two people briefed on the conversations. The judges …

Law & Crime reports: Judge Aileen Cannon apparently got tired of non-parties trying to intervene on issues in the Mar-a-Lago case, as she sent 24 Republican attorneys general and their proposed brief in support of Donald Trump packing on Monday. The coalition of AGs said Trump’s posts amounted to “colorful rhetoric” during the presidential campaign, not true threats to law …

CBS News reports: The federal judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Donald Trump once again rejected requests by the former president’s legal team to dismiss the charges against him, according to an order filed Monday evening. Judge Aileen Cannon denied numerous claims by Trump’s defense attorneys and his co-defendants arguing the 2023 indictment was technically flawed, …

NBC News reports: To briefly recap, it was last week when the suspected felon, referencing the newly unsealed court records, claimed by way of his social media platform that the Justice Department “AUTHORIZED THE FBI TO USE DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE” while executing a court-approved search warrant at Mar-a-Lago. Trump issued an outlandish fundraising appeal soon after, falsely claiming that President …

“Judge Cannon is, I think, proving right now she’s one of the most spectacular judges and fair judges on the — in the entire federal bench. But why is the burden — why is the burden put on her? Why didn’t we — and why — you heard Johnson today. He’s going, well, it looks like a criminal conspiracy. It’s …

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump’s criminal trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents has been postponed indefinitely in a blow to the Justice Department’s efforts to obtain a jury verdict before November’s presidential election. US District Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the criminal proceeding in Florida, set a new schedule for motions in the case and announced that a previously …

CNN reports: A federal judge will not dismiss the classified documents charges against former President Donald Trump, who argued that he had the authority to take classified or sensitive documents with him after he left the White House. The short order from US District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday leaves open the possibility that Trump could still use the argument …

The New York Times reports: In an open display of frustration, federal prosecutors on Tuesday night told the judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case that a “fundamentally flawed” order she had issued was causing delays and asked her to quickly resolve a critical dispute about one of Mr. Trump’s defenses — leaving them time to appeal …

The Washington Post reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified-documents case issued an unusual order late Monday regarding jury instructions at the end of the trial — even though she has not yet ruled on when the trial will be held, or a host of other issues. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon instructed lawyers to file proposed jury …