Well, this should be no surprise.
She's been bending over backwards for Trump since day one, and she's spent this entire time dragging her feet on even the most basic of issues. She created delay after delay, and is now using the delay she created as the justification for granting the postponement that Trump has been seeking all along.
"Mid November." What a god damned coincidence. The rotting corpse of Hellen Keller could have seen right through that load of bullshit.
At this point I'm convinced she's literally in communication with his team or people once removed. This is the most slam dunk case ever. Did he have these documents? Yes. Was he allowed to? No.
Oh man if the prosecution brought evidence of that to the DoJ things would get spicy.
Is there anyway they can throw her out or do something about this cunts corruption? Seriously we going allow her to keep this from proceeding until she is sure he is President and can pardon himself.
Yes, they can appeal to the 11th circuit to have her removed. That's not an easy thing to do though.
It’s such an open and shut case, he may still be convicted with all the help in the world. If that happens he is in a bad position to effectively argue that she was biased against him.
That "may" is doing a lot of heavy-lifting. I don't want revenge" or to punish Trump because I don't like him (though I don't). I want justice to be served. The judge is clearly biased toward him, and that could result in a miscarriage of justice. She must be removed.
There's still plenty of time to let her dig her grave deeper.
And is there any mechanism in place for her removal as a judge, just based on overall being unfit for the role?
Yes. She'd have to be impeached by the House of Representatives, then convicted in the Senate by a 2/3 majority. Basically will never happen.
We basically have a system where, as soon as the fascists capture 1/3 of the government, we have no legal defense against them seizing the other 2/3.
That's cause cannon is corrupt
I like how they say it needs to be delayed because he’s campaigning. Fuck that. Crimes come first.
Yeah, sorry I won't be able to pay that speeding ticket right now, I'm campaigning.
Oh, when will I be done? I suppose when the Galactic Council finally holds the vote to appoint me Supreme Galactic Overlord. Until then!
NO FAIR, THAT'S THE POSITION I WANTED!!!
Position already taken
Settle down there, Palpatine.
My guess is she'll grant a delay but won't cite his campaigning because she knows that won't fly with appellate judges.
She'll have enough other bullshit justifications to give Trump what he wants and get her kickback.
My understanding is that scheduling delays are not appealable, at least not by the prosecution. Judges have the right to set their own schedules.
She just doesn't want to look blatantly corrupt if and when anything does go to appeal though. She's doing her best to postpone this trial indefinitely while still maintaining something resembling plausible impartiality. I'm sure that when "Mid November 2024" comes around, she'll suddenly have another reason to delay because Trump will then be appealing the results of the election about 47 times, and heaven forbid her case interfere with that and after all that he's gonna need more time to prepare. So, January 2026 then? What? He'll be too old and suffering from dementia and therefore isn't competent to stand trial, even though he still appears on TV every day? Darn. I guess she'll just have to postpone this trial indefinitely. It's too bad......the people deserved to hear the truth, but whatever was she to do? The situation was completely unavoidable!!!
I’m sure that when “Mid November 2024” comes around, she’ll suddenly have another reason to delay because Trump will then be appealing the results of the election about 47 times
Hopefully he'll be in a Georgia prison by then. He can't pardon his way out of that one either.
She’s doing her best to postpone this trial indefinitely while still maintaining something resembling plausible impartiality
No chance in Hell of that. She's going for blatantly implausible impartiality, at best.
The way she's acting, she might as well be thumbing her nose at everyone who isn't a fucking MAGA traitor and yelling "neener neener neener, you can't stop me!"
🤔 I wonder what was on those documents that the rest of the government is allowing this to happen to keep quiet.
I wonder for example if Trump dug up papers with nuclear secrets and tried to sell them. Ooh, or UFOs.
She's already been slapped down before for this case, couldn't that same authority do so again?
Without reading the article, I’m betting it’s Judge Cannon.
Edit: yup
It's absofuckinglutley infuriating that this can be the case. It was the same with me too. Didn't even have to open the article to know it was that fucking stooge.
How the hell can we pretend we have a fair judicial system when we can call how a judge will act simply by knowing who she is... Not knowing the facts of the case as they don't matter, but simply knowing it's "her" gives us all the information we need to know she's going to fight for Trump however she can...
Impartial my ass.
the Trump team asking Cannon to postpone the trial “until at least mid-November 2024.”
How terribly convenient ....
about a month ago, Trump’s team wanted thousands of pages of evidence it already had from the investigation given to them again, so that they could see where copies of classified documents in a box stored at Mar-a-Lago may have existed among other documents, to “ascertain where the pages had been stored,” prosecutors said.
It's not up to the prosecutors to make up for Trump's lawyers' lack of organization.
It’s rank bullshit, yes.
This is the same judge that allowed a special master, and that was reversed by the 3 judge appeals panel with scathing commentary.
Her head is so far up trump’s ass the hamberders taste mostly fresh.
Of course she did. We knew as soon as this judge was assigned the case that she was going to try to wreck it, like she did the last one.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Has there been a more incompetent, political judge to ever sit on the bench? I can't imagine how.
Clarance Thomas: “Am I a joke to you?”
Yes, yes you are.
This corrupt idiot has no business being a judge. But whatever, she's a sideshow. He's fucked in NY and GA. If she wants to make her name synonymous with "bought and paid for stooge" in a vain attempt to shield the orange idiot from the consequences of his own actions, let her.
Is this the part where I say "this man will never see substantive consequences" or are we still pretending he might?
WHERE’S THE UNREDACTED MUELLER REPORT. MERRICK!
?$%#$&*!!
The people have a right to a speedy trial too.
Is there any way to get this judge removed?
Seems like she's trying to avoid a mistrial due to the incompetence of the defense team.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago document-mishandling case cast doubt on the viability having a trial in May 2024, signaling she may postpone the criminal proceedings.
Cannon told Justice Department prosecutor Jay Bratt, who asked to keep the trial schedule as is: “I’m not seeing in your position a level of understanding to these realities.”
“After four months of delay, we were allowed to review for the first time documents that are critical to some of the serious felony charges” that special counsel Jack Smith has filed, Trump’s lawyers wrote to the court two weeks ago.
The classified records indictment has loomed over Trump’s candidacy particularly because of the questions it’s raised – with substantial known witnesses and even audio evidence – about how casually Trump treated national security information that could damage the United States if accessed at his club and about his unwillingness after his presidency to comply with regulations around presidential records.
In a filing last week, prosecutors told the judge Trump’s team has cried wolf about their access to evidence in the case, including classified records.
Trump’s legal team has been reviewing and discussing classified evidence in Miami, most recently on Tuesday, when the former president joined his lawyers in the SCIF during the afternoon, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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