Judge Cannon has appeared confused by basic legal concepts and indulged the Trump defense team’s wildest arguments
Over the course of seven public hearings related to Donald Trump’s classified documents case, a picture has emerged of Judge Aileen Cannon sometimes appearing prepared for legal questions but at other times having difficulty comprehending even the simplest concepts.
In the view of prosecutors and several legal experts, her tendency to repeatedly ask the same question or miss the point of an argument is proof that the Trump-appointed judge is ill-suited to handle a trial that has already been delayed, repeatedly, by her willingness to grant hearings over the Trump team’s most far-fetched requests. The case’s slow progress, they argue, plays into Trump’s strategy of pushing it past Election Day, and then, if elected, stopping it from ever happening.
According to the crowd at Lawfare not one single day has tolled on the speedy trial clock. So while you are correct in the abstract, we aren’t close to the trigger point for that to occur.
Makes sense the defense wants to slow the trial down as much as possible, so I doubt they’d be pressing for a speedy trial. My comment was mostly pedantic as it isn’t something that the prosecution can really utilize.
Jack Smith was pressing for a speedy trial arguing that it’s the right of the people to see justice done equally as much as it’s a right of the defendant. We see how well that’s worked out.