
Some legal experts think U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon could be replaced by an appeals court if special counsel Jack Smith seeks her removal from former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case.
“Over the last six months, a slow-moving car-crash of a case has been unfolding, with a judge who seems committed to protecting the former president at every turn of the road,” Ray Brescia, a professor at Albany Law School and former district court clerk, wrote at The Daily Beast.