A month after former President Donald Trump was charged with mishandling classified documents, the judge presiding over the case is set to take on a more visible role as she weighs competing requests on a trial date and hears arguments this week on a procedural, but potentially crucial, area of the law.

  • @Rhoeri
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    1 year ago

    Judge? You mean his paid advertisement with a gavel?

  • effingjoe
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    181 year ago

    I’ll just leave this here:

    Canon 2A.

    An appearance of impropriety occurs when reasonable minds, with knowledge of all the relevant circumstances disclosed by a reasonable inquiry, would conclude that the judge’s honesty, integrity, impartiality, temperament, or fitness to serve as a judge is impaired. Public confidence in the judiciary is eroded by irresponsible or improper conduct by judges, including harassment and other inappropriate workplace behavior. A judge must avoid all impropriety and appearance of impropriety. This prohibition applies to both professional and personal conduct. A judge must expect to be the subject of constant public scrutiny and accept freely and willingly restrictions that might be viewed as burdensome by the ordinary citizen. Because it is not practicable to list all prohibited acts, the prohibition is necessarily cast in general terms that extend to conduct by judges that is harmful although not specifically mentioned in the Code. Actual improprieties under this standard include violations of law, court rules, or other specific provisions of this Code.

    I think the “appearance of impropriety” ship has long sailed. She should recuse herself. She won’t. Because it’s more than just the appearance of impropriety.

  • @MicroWaveOP
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    A pretrial conference Tuesday to discuss procedures for handling classified information will represent the first courtroom arguments in the case before U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon since Trump was indicted five weeks ago. The arguments could provide insight into how Cannon intends to preside over the case while she also confronts the unresolved question of how to schedule Trump’s trial as he campaigns for president.

    • Chainweasel
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      291 year ago

      how to schedule Trump’s trial as he campaigns for president.

      Conservatives keep saying that the DOJ is treating Trump unfairly and I agree, do you think the DOJ would take our busy schedules into account when setting up a trial?