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Legal experts criticized Cannon’s pace in scheduling for the classified docs case with some accusing the Trump appointee of setting an elongated timeline to the former president’s benefit.
“It really appears Cannon is slow-walking this case to benefit Trump,” former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “She’s already had these motions for weeks, and schedules the hearings more than two weeks from now? And this after taking weeks to issue a standard protective order.”
I’m actually fine with this. The DC case is streamlined and will likely result in a conviction long before the documents case could get anywhere even if it were an impartial judge. It’s better this way since the documents case will involve classified materials that can’t be shared publicly that’ll make the conspiracy theory nutjobs even more nuttier (and possibly violent) than usual.
Better to have Trump already in prison while that case is going on. He can be ferried from federal prison to Florida back to prison, then over to Georgia for that trial. The secrecy involved with the evidence in the documents case won’t matter much to anyone if he’s already incarcerated and we’re seeing a televised trial in Georgia at the same time.
I kinda suspect it may be why Smith didn’t challenge Cannon being the judge presiding over the documents case. Though I doubt that, Jack Smith seems like a straight shooter to me. At any rate, it’s probably good for that case to be delayed.