When U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon was up for Senate confirmation in 2020, she was pointedly asked whether she’d had discussions about loyalty to then-President Donald Trump before he nominated her to Florida’s federal bench.
“No,” Cannon responded to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Suspicions of Trump loyalty again circled Cannon on Monday after she issued a sweeping decision granting the former president’s request to appoint an outside special master to review documents seized by the FBI in its Aug. 8 search of his Mar-a-Lago home. She also ordered the Justice Department to temporarily stop using the documents in its criminal investigation of Trump’s retention of them after leaving office.
