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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Trump-appointed judge assigned to Mar-a-Lago case faces scrutiny

Aileen Cannon affirms her oath as she testifies remotely before the Senate judiciary committee in July 2020.
Aileen Cannon affirms her oath as she testifies remotely before the Senate judiciary committee in July 2020. Photograph: Newscom/Alamy

With Donald Trump’s arraignment concluded, scrutiny of the legal proceedings in the former president’s classified documents case switches to the status of its assigned judge – his own appointee to the federal court bench, Aileen Cannon.

Analysts have already raised concerns about the impartiality of the inexperienced jurist, seemingly plucked at random to handle arguably the most explosive case ever to be tried in the southern district of Florida.

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