The Trump-appointed judge presiding over the former president's classified documents case agreed earlier this week to protect the identities of potential government witnesses, a move that one legal expert argues is a product of her realizing — by earlier siding with Trump's legal team — she was on the wrong side of the law.
Judge Aileen Cannon's reversal came after special counsel Jack Smith had argued that redacting witness identities was necessary to protect the witnesses from harassment. She had previously denied such a request, a decision that, if upheld, some experts believed could cost the judge her job.
