Judge Cannon Sparks Firestorm After Grossly Obvious Team Trump Ruling

Judge Aileen Cannon appears to be making things up as she goes along. The district judge that Trump appointed dismissed the whole case involving Trump’s confidential materials on Monday, ostensibly on the basis of one concurring opinion from the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. Judge Cannon’s 93-page decision, which declared that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional, infuriated both legal experts and journalists.

A snapshot from Twitter @QasimRashid: Qasim Rashid, Esq. Recognize the actions of Judge Cannon. She dismissed Trump’s case involving sensitive documents and used the constant media coverage of the massacre to break decades’ worth of judicial tradition without mentioning a single case in support of her decision. The strong hyperbole behind the claim that Judge Cannon is destroying the rule of law to protect Donald Trump has always made me skeptical. However, I hadn’t been paying close attention to the case.

Judge Cannon rejected years’ worth of recent decisions on Mueller and Smith, decades of institutional history, and very much the whole idea behind the special counsel laws. Chris Hates posted on X, “Just to be crystal clear: SCOTUS has upheld special counsels repeatedly.” As a district court judge, Cannon’s responsibility is to uphold established precedent. She is acting in this way because she believes the MAGA court will side with her and Trump’s legal team.

Cannon appears to have relied on Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion from the Supreme Court in the immunity case earlier this month rather than following precedent. Thomas was the sole judge to argue in that ruling that Jack Smith’s special appointment by the Department of Justice was a mistake. The next court to hear Cannon’s case is the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which has previously overturned some of her rulings. Cannon will still be able to give Trump a victory by dragging out Trump’s trial, as she has done for the previous eighteen months, regardless of the decision made by the federal courts.

One who isn’t furious? The actual Donald Trump. On Truth Social, Trump wrote that the dismissal “should be just the first step,” calling all the cases against him scams, hoaxes, and “Political Attacks,” and further pressing for the “dismissal of ALL witch hunts” against him.