What to know about Aileen Cannon, the judge in Trump's classified docs case

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What to know about Aileen Cannon, the judge in Trump's classified docs case
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Cannon will consider whether to dismiss the case at a hearing Thursday.

Cannon, who was nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2020, handed him a major legal victory on the opening day of the

earlier this year argued that he had "virtually unreviewable" executive authority to designate presidential documents as personal under the law.Presidential Records Act "does not exempt Trump from the criminal law, entitle him to unilaterally declare highly classified presidential records to be personal records, or shield him from criminal investigations — let alone allow him to obstruct a federal investigation with impunity.

From 2013 to 2020, she worked as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida in the major crimes and appellate divisions, she said in her Senate

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