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Missouri newspaper blasts federal judge for favoring ‘loyalty to Trump’ over ‘loyalty to the law’
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Missouri newspaper blasts federal judge for favoring ‘loyalty to Trump’ over ‘loyalty to the law’
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U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon has received a great deal of criticism for the decisions she has made in response to the federal investigation of the government documents that former President Donald Trump was storing at his Mar-a-Lago compound in Palm Beach, Florida — including classified documents that FBI agents confiscated when they executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, August 8. Some of that criticism of Cannon has come from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board.
In a scathing editorial published on October 2, the board argues that Cannon, a Trump appointee, has made one bad decision after another where the former president is concerned.
“First, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, granted the former president’s request for a ‘special master’ to review documents he took from the White House, a baffling decision derided by legal experts across the political spectrum,” the Post-Dispatch’s editorial board writes. “Worse, Cannon ruled that the FBI couldn’t have access to classified documents, thwarting a probe with national-security implications — another head-scratching stance that an appeals court later overturned in blistering language. Then, last week, Cannon overruled the special master that she herself appointed, saying Trump’s lawyers don’t have to provide evidence of his baseless claim that the FBI ‘planted’ documents in his home.”
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The board continues, “It has become glaringly obvious that this judge shares Trump’s corruptly transactional approach to politics. She shouldn’t preside in this case.”
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