U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has been accused of entertaining Donald Trump’s every legal defense, no matter how absurd, bogging down the classified documents case she’s had for a year with motions and hearings that would never happen in another court.
Since being randomly assigned the case last June, Cannon has dutifully considered the former president's every legal argument with the utmost seriousness, repeatedly delaying the case – by far the most serious she’s ever presided over – and recently scrapping the scheduled trial date, citing all the motions she’s allowed to pile up without ruling on, with no sign that she’s anywhere close to setting another.
