Donald Trump’s attacks on judges and prosecutors, with insults and falsehoods that in a country like Russia would have led him to a geriatric penitentiary in Siberia, are selective in nature, which belies his supposed anti-establishment attitude.
To magistrate Juan Merchan, in charge of the former president’s case in New York for his relationship with a porn actress, he tells him everything but nice. There is a pending recusal because he maintains that he is a Trump hater, one of those who hate him.
These days, after the imputation on Tuesday, in Miami, of 37 charges for taking secret documents, prosecutor Jack Smith has fallen off his ass. Crazy, demented, pincho and florets like that.
However, to this day, not one of his destructive dedications to Judge Aileen Cannon, chosen “at random” in the federal court of Florida to preside over the trial for these classified papers that she filed until and all in the showers or toilets of his Mar-a-Lago mansion. According to the indictment, he endangered the national security and that of the allies.
On the contrary Trump and Trumpismeno did not just vilify the magistrate, and in other circumstances they would have ammunition, but celebrated the stroke of luck.
He sees that there must be judges in the federal court in Miami and goes and it is Cannon’s turn by lottery, 42 years old and appointed by Trump himself. She was one of the last nominees in her term.
This judge has been serving since November 2020, shortly after the then president lost the elections for his second term.
So it was known that she would be in charge of this matter, suspicions were raised. She has a short judicial career, but last year she gained notoriety precisely for this case, in a demonstration of clear favoritism and submission to the hand that appointed her. Once the FBI entered and searched Mar-a-Lago to retrieve documents, in August 2022, Trump appealed to the courts against that order, which was approved and supervised by a court. The complaint fell on Judge Cannon, whose decision caused blushing even among conservative jurists, those of her own ideological spectrum.
He suddenly decided to drop the investigation and suggested that Trump had special protection as a former president from any home invasion warrant. A conservative court, when the appeal was resolved, removed the colors. He overruled all of his decisions and reminded him that there was no justification for favoring Trump and treating him any differently than any other citizen.
The fact that she was appointed by what is today the person being prosecuted before her court is not grounds for recusal, but she could defend this option based on the resolution she made. Although prosecutor Smith has not said anything about the matter, she has already assured that she does not plan to recuse herself.
Cannon is a former federal prosecutor and one of more than 200 conservative lawyers Trump appointed. She was born in Colombia, the daughter of a Cuban immigrant, and grew up in Miami. He graduated from Duke University and joined the Federalist Society, the great think tank of conservative jurists, while studying at the University of Michigan Law School.
He has spent most of his career as a litigator. Some consider that it is not up to a trial of this caliber. In his career of less than three years, he has been assigned 224 cases. Of these, due to prior agreements, only four went to trial, The New York Times reported. All four were routine, like the case of a man who was arrested with a gun. It added up to a total of 14 days of trial.
When prosecutor Smith appeared to explain the charges, he requested a speedy trial. The Miami court is famous precisely for being expeditious. But Trump, in the middle of the campaign and with the election in November 2024, is interested in delay. And this is where Cannon can play to his advantage, as well as his influence in choosing the members of the jury.
