Grrrrr: Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, initially assigned to oversee his case

[Tommy Carcetti]

14. I think people might be misinterpreting this.

Court filings for the arraignment include her name. People assume she's been assigned to hear the arraignment.

The arraignment is in Miami.

Judge Cannon sits in Fort Pierce, which is over 100 miles north of Miami.

It would make no sense for one judge to travel 100 miles down to a place where there are multiple judges available to hear the case.

However, Judge Cannon did notoriously oversee the review of the documents that formed the basis for these charges.

Therefore, it's possible--and likely even, considering the logic of the situation--that her name was included simply because of her prior involvement on the case, not because she's been assigned to hear it.

Electronic court filings typically have a broad service list that includes all lawyers and individuals who have been involved in the case at some point.