Donald Trump's six-hour Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night, filled with "anger, vitriol and racist threats," began almost immediately with the "joke heard around the world"—an attack calling Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean"—and ended with 80 minutes of Dona...
That judge being Aileen Cannon, who Trump nominated, has been obviously slow walking his case, is clearly doing everything she can to protect him, and even she wasn’t stupid enough to try this argument until Clarence Thomas dropped a big fat hint in a SCOTUS decision to give her cover.
Cannon is also on the leaked shortlist to be Donald’s AG if he disgraces the office again (there are thoughts it might have been an intentional leak to somehow shore up Cannon’s ‘Special Prosecutors are just a figment of our imagination, we’re hallucinating the hundreds of years of precedent’ reasoning to Judge Chutkan, like ‘See, this potential future AG says it, that’s gotta count for something’) , “The defendant offered me a very prestigious job” seems like a pretty major conflict of interest that should definitely have her removed from the case.
I’m sure that will come up in the confirmation hearing, which is why the Senate is so important. And why the Democrats keep focusing on Texas even though Kamala has a very slim chance there. Cruz is vulnerable, and if Allred takes that seat and keeps the Senate in Democratic hands it will go a long way to limit the damage Trump can do by limiting his choices.