The 58-year-old convicted felon accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump as he golfed in Florida in mid-September filed documents Thursday demanding the recusal of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon from presiding over the criminal case, citing the Trump-appointed judge’s dismissal of the former president’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution, Trump’s ensuing lavish praise of her in public, and the “prospect” of her “promotion” to the U.S. Supreme Court should Trump win the 2024 election.

  • @Kaput
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    14522 hours ago

    How does she consistently end up assigned to Trumps related cases? How small is the judges pool in that area?

    • RubberDuck
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      It’s a very small pool there… I remember it’s like 3 or something and 1 is parttime.

    • @jve
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      14 hours ago

      And why is there only one picture of this woman?

      • @andrewta
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        4222 hours ago

        Well if there’s only three then the pool is quite small. But I do think in this case it should be handed to another judge.

    • @[email protected]
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      1719 hours ago

      She just refuses to take any case unless her handlers tell her to, so her schedule is always open

    • @[email protected]
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      3722 hours ago

      This article does a good job of explaining how she was assigned to the documents case last year, and still applies to how cases are assigned in her district in general. There just aren’t a lot of judges in the pool of available options.