Trump appointed judge presiding over classified documents case cancels trial

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A federal judge in Florida, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump and is presiding over Trump’s classified documents case, canceled the May trial.

Judge Aileen Cannon‘s Tuesday order postpones the trial indefinitely.

According to the order, unresolved issues in the case remain and are further complicated by Trump’s separate trial currently in New York City.

As previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, supporters of the former President Donald Trump lined the streets in front of a Federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, in February. Trump appeared in a closed-door criminal courtroom for a case involving the classified documents he retained at Mar-A-Lago, his Palm Beach residence.

In August 2022, FBI agents executed a search warrant of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, where they recovered boxes of classified documents.

In February, special prosecutor Jack Smith condemned the Trump appointed judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Trump.

PolitiFact reported Judge Cannon has been accused of appearing in a photo wearing a hat supporting Trump, but rumors that Cannon was forced to recuse herself were false.

In May of 2020, the 39-year-old judge was tapped by Trump to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Also as previously reported by the Wisconsin Law Journal, for the first time in American history, Manhattan prosecutors presented charges in a criminal case against a former American president to a jury.

Opening statements in Trump’s New York hush money criminal trial began April 22, in Manhattan, painting jurors a dark picture of democracy under attack.

Trump’s legal defense team’s argued the former president has done nothing wrong and the timing of his criminal trials before the 2024 election is blatant election interference.