Legal expert: Trump may be "overplaying his hand" -- and it may get Judge Cannon "taken off the case"
Source: Salon
Legal expert: Trump may be “overplaying his hand” — and it may get Judge Cannon "taken off the case"
Igor Derysh
Mon, July 17, 2023 at 8:55 AM EDT·4 min read
Former President Donald Trump's attorneys are set to appear in court before Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon in the Mar-a-Lago documents case on Tuesday, putting her in the spotlight after a series of pro-Trump rulings that were wiped out by an appeals court earlier in the investigation.
Cannon, who blocked the Justice Department from reviewing classified documents seized in last year's FBI search of Mar-a-Lago before her ruling was overturned, will preside over a pretrial conference to discuss the procedures for handling classified information in the case. The arguments come as Trump pushes to delay the trial indefinitely, citing his presidential campaign, which the special counsel Jack Smith's strongly pushed back on last week.
Cannon is expected to face additional scrutiny after her earlier rulings drew criticism from legal experts that she was overly favoring the former president.
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Dave Aronberg, the Florida state attorney for Palm Beach County, told CNN that Trump's attempt to delay the trial may have backfired.
"Jack Smith is now a pit bull, so he should have been careful what he asked for," he said. "But now he's saying the quiet part out loud. He's saying, 'don't even try me until after the election,' when he thinks he'll be president and then can order his Department of Justice to get rid of the whole thing."
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Original Salon link: https://www.salon.com/2023/07/17/legal-expert-may-be-overplaying-his-hand--and-it-may-get-cannon-taken-off-the-case/
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