Judge Cannon may not have definitively knocked the Mar-a-Lago documents case off the calendar before the election, but she does continue to break shit at a remarkable pace.
This week she not only granted Trump a postponement on replying in support of the eleventy-seven garbage motions he’s spammed the docket with, but her shenanigans caused a witness to out himself on national television rather than wait for her to make good on her threats to do it herself.
“Over the course of the last year, emotionally it’s been a roller coaster,” Brian Butler told Kaitlan Collins. “A couple weeks ago, Judge Cannon says she’s gonna release the names of the witnesses. You go from highs and lows in this.”
It is so, so obvious that Trump is acting precisely as a mobster would in this situation, and Cannon is playing not only willfully, but gleefully, and also very intentionally, into his hands. If the case involved literally anybody but Trump, she’d already have been removed from the case by the relevant appellate court. It’s infuriating and insane that nobody seems to have the fucking balls to actually enforce the standards of judicial independence and impartiality, because it is blatantly, unavoidably obvious that Cannon is following neither.
When the rule of law breaks down, people who want justice start taking it into their own hands. Judge Cannon might be risking more than she realizes by being so blatantly corrupt.
…Ah, who am I kidding? It’s much more likely one of the folks actually trying to do their job properly, like Jack Smith or Fani Willis, would be the ones to end up assassinated.