Trump-Appointed Judge Aileen Cannon Assigned To Initially Oversee Documents Case
In Washington, The criminal case regarding his handling of classified government data is currently being presided over by a federal district judge in South Florida who former President Donald Trump selected, CBS News reported.
A source familiar with the situation, who spoke to CBS News, reveals that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, based in Fort Pierce, Florida, is designated as the presiding judge for at least the initial proceeding in the summons served to Trump on Thursday, notifying him of the indictment.
On June 13, Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in federal district court in Miami.
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It’s uncertain if Cannon will continue to preside over the case as it moves forward. ABC News initially reported her assignment.
Trump will appoint Cannon to the federal bench in 2020. Cannon was involved in various aspects of the legal fighting last year, from the FBI’s execution of a court-authorized search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida.
Federal agents took Thirty-three boxes of material from home during that investigation, 13 containing around 100 documents with classified marks.
Cannon presided over the case after Trump filed a complaint in federal court asking for the appointment of a special master, or impartial third party, to examine the documents the FBI retrieved at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump’s request for a special master was granted by the judge, who also directed the Justice Department to temporarily halt utilizing the information it had collected in its investigation until the special master’s assessment was complete.
However, legal professionals roundly condemned her decision, and after the Justice Department appealed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously overturned it.
Judges Britt Grant and Andrew Beshear were two of the three judges who were on the three-judge panel that examined Cannon’s decision.
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The Supreme Court rejected a request by Trump for the special master to have access to the sensitive information during a previous stage of the debate over the special master when federal prosecutors merely requested access to the batch of 103 documents marked classified.
On Thursday, Trump was charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and the retention of national security information.
The former president has denied wrongdoing and asserted that the Biden administration is unfairly pursuing him to hinder his bid for the presidency in 2024.
A former federal prosecutor, Todd Blanche, will now represent him as he announced changes to his legal team on Friday. In a joint statement, attorneys Jim Trusty and John Rowley announced their resignations.
“It has been an honor to have spent the last year defending him, and we know he will be vindicated in his battle against the Biden Administration’s partisan weaponization of the American justice system,” Rowley and Trusty said.
“Now that the case has been filed in Miami, this is a logical moment for us to step aside and let others carry the cases through to completion.”
Trump’s legal team members Trusty, Rowley, and Lindsey Halligan met with Justice Department representatives on Monday to discuss the investigation into the former president. Halligan confirmed to CBS News that she is still working for Trump.