Aileen Cannon’s Latest Misdeed Could Have Been Way Worse
Talking Points Memo • • nation
Key Points:
- U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ruled against the destruction of Volume II of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Mar-a-Lago documents case, preventing a worst-case scenario of immediate report destruction and allowing the 11th Circuit Court to review the case soberly.
- Cannon’s rulings have been criticized as politically motivated and legally unfounded, particularly her refusal to allow outside groups to intervene, which has compromised the adversarial nature of the proceedings.
- In Minnesota, a judge found the Trump administration in civil contempt for improperly transferring and releasing an immigrant, ordering the government to pay for the immigrant’s return flight; meanwhile, a whistleblower revealed the Trump administration’s dismantling of ICE training programs.
- The Trump DOJ amended its witness
