A new judge with little experience on this type of case ane unabashingly trying to help the guy who picked her for job keeps seemingly helping Donald Trump string things out until after the election?
And?
If Trump was to win another term as President?
Judge Aileen Cannon wouldn’t have to deal with the case at all, eh?
The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s criminal case in Florida — on charges that he hoarded classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate after his presidency — has indefinitely postponed the trial, once scheduled for May 20.
The date had been widely expected to move amid a tangle of pretrial conflicts between special counsel Jack Smith and Trump’s attorneys. Smith had urged Judge Aileen Cannon to reschedule the trial to begin on July 8, but an order from the judge on Tuesday afternoon suggested that she is unlikely to even decide on a new trial date before late July.
Cannon, a Trump appointee who took the bench in late 2020, indicated in the order that, before setting a new trial date, she intends to resolve the backlog of other issues in the case that have piled up on her plate. Smith’s defenders have criticized Cannon for what they see as a plodding pace in resolving pretrial matters, and tensions between the special counsel and the judge have flared in recent months over a series of puzzling rulings that threatened to derail the case….
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Trump has sought to delay all of his criminal cases until after this year’s election. If he wins, he could shut down the two federal cases brought by Smith, and the state cases in New York and Georgia also might have to be frozen.
Cannon’s order does not completely close the door on scheduling the classified documents case for trial in 2024, though it further diminishes that possibility, which had already appeared slim due to the slow progress of the case in recent months.
By delaying a final decision, Cannon gives other judges presiding over Trump criminal cases — U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington and Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee in Georgia — a window to schedule their own trials this summer or fall. It’s unclear, though, if either of those judges can prepare their cases in time…..