Aileen Cannon Will Get Booted from Trump’s Case [Video]

An attorney who worked in Donald Trump’s White House predicted that Judge Aileen Cannon’s “partiality” will lead to her removal from the former president’s documents case.

Special Counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting Trump for what Smith says was the former president’s willful retention of classified documents and Trump’s subsequent efforts to obstruct their recovery. The charges came after the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022, where they found boxes of government documents. Trump claims he had every right to take the material. That prompted a rare public statement from the National Archives, which said presidents must hand over government documents upon leaving office.

Cannon, whom Trump appointed to the federal bench in 2020, has issued a series of odd rulings that have prolonged the case. That includesa since-vacated appointment of a special master to review the documents found in Trump’s possession, as well as Cannon’s request for proposed jury instructions from counsel based on interpretations …