Trump-appointed Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon has one mission above all others: to delay the Merde o' Lardo stolen classified document case beyond the election, if not to kill it altogether. The deliberately slow pace that Cannon has set in ruling on mostly frivolous motions from the Malignant Loser's lawyers have delayed the trial start date indefinitely, something that cheers the Malignant Loser and justifies his appointment of her to the bench. Her favorite delaying move is to hold lengthy hearings on various defense motions and not issue a ruling, as in yesterday's hearing on co-conspirator and Trump butt boy Walt Nauta's motion to dismiss the case against him:
"The heated arguments played out in a morning proceeding in Fort Pierce, Florida, that had been scheduled for Walt Nauta, one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants, to present arguments that special counsel Jack Smith’s team had selectively and vindictively brought charges against him.
But the hearing quickly diverted into a longstanding disagreement over an August 2022 meeting between prosecutor Jay Bratt and Nauta’s defense attorney, Stanley Woodward. Woodward has claimed in court proceedings and filings that Bratt attempted to pressure him into convincing Nauta to cooperate against Trump by threatening to affect a potential judgeship nomination. Cannon did not issue a ruling from the bench on Nauta’s motion that the case be dismissed on those grounds.
Nor did Cannon rule on a motion she heard during an afternoon session Wednesday, brought by all three of the case’s defendants, who claimed that the indictment suffers technical flaws that required the dismissal of the charges.
Cannon seemed skeptical of those arguments, while also expressing concern about a jury’s ability to understand legal nuances in the case at a future trial.
Real people have to decide these issues,' Cannon said." (our emphasis)
Suggesting that the case is too complex for a jury to comprehend may reflect more on her incompetence and her pretense that the clear and simple evidence of her patron's mishandling of classified material and obstruction of their return is complicated. It's worrisome that the Department of Justice under feckless Attorney General Merrick Garland hasn't taken more aggressive action to seek Cannon's removal from the case on the grounds of clear bias, now that there's no hope for a completed trial before the November election.
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