Donald Trump made history this week as the first-ever former president to face a federal criminal indictment. Now, he may become the first-ever U.S. citizen to stand trial before a judge he himself appointed.
listing 37 criminal counts of seven different charges, including obstruction and mishandling of classified documents, prosecutors were hit with the news that Judge Aileen Cannon, nominated by Trump in 2020, will oversee the case.
Cannon, 42, has been a member of the arch-conservative Federalist Society since 2005, and was nominated by Trump to a Florida federal court judgeship in 2020. She was little known until last September when she was assigned to the immediate aftermath of the August FBI search on Mar-a-Lago, when federal agents seized thousands of documents, some marked classified, that Trump had stored at his private club.
“When you have classified documents, there is abundant opportunities to slow this down, and if they’ve got a judge who is willing to go along with slowing this down, it becomes very hard to predict when this will go to trial,” Samuel Buell, a white-collar criminal law professor at Duke,. If Trump can successfully punt the case until after the 2024 presidential election, then a potential Republican president—either Trump himself or another nominee—could shut down the case entirely.
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