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As part of an analysis of how U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, reports from her courtroom show a judge who is both "prickly" and" insecure" and often has trouble understanding what lawyers from both sides try to explain to her.

The controversial Cannon -- who has been accused of slow-walking Donald Trump's obstruction of justice trial related to his alleged illegal retention of government documents -- in recent hearings has pressed lawyers to remake their points over and over, which led to the New York Times' Alan Feuer to question whether, "she does not understand the answers she is receiving or is trying to push back against them."

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 166 points 5 months ago

She needs to stop being a judge. She is supremely unqualified and has a clear political agenda.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 113 points 5 months ago

She's gonna be on SCOTUS within a decade.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago

President DeSantis' first pick.

[-] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

I just threw up in my fucking mouth

[-] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

And I threw up in my eating mouth!

I think you're using your mouth wrong, mate. Try holding that stuff in.

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Please don’t use the word supreme anywhere near a description of Cannon.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Does

Aileen Cannon is supremely deserving of being appointed to the highest (lit.) court by being fired out of a cannon into the sun.

Fit your favor better?

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Love the sentiment. Still concerned about tempting fate with that adverb though.

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[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 8 points 5 months ago

She's only unqualified because you think that she should be fair and experienced. Neither of those attributes are desirable for trump, which is why he put her in that seat.

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 111 points 5 months ago

Hanlon's razor.

Either way, the only resolution is disbarment/impeachment.

[-] TheEntity@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

More like Trumpet's cannon.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 5 months ago

What if she's feigning stupidity to enact malice?

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

You’d have to be pretty dumb to try that.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even if she is disbarred, it won’t matter. She will still be a federal judge.

Impeachment is the only way to correct this shitshow. She isn’t qualified to work at McDonald’s.

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 90 points 5 months ago

Conservatives, including judges, are not known for their intelligence.

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[-] BabyYodel@lemmy.ml 75 points 5 months ago

How is it not a conflict of interest that “Donald Trump appointed her to the lifetime position”. ? Haven’t judges been asked to recuse themselves over less? I’m genuinely confused.

[-] wolfpack86@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

I don't think that's fundamentally disqualifying. What's the proposal on who could reasonably try this case? Are appointees by political opponents okay? Only appointees pre Clinton?

The bigger problem, regardless of who is on trial, is she was never supposed to be on the bench.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

Her promotion was purely ideological. It had nothing to do with her legal accumen.

It's definitely possible Trump could have found someone who was both technically skilled AND sheep dipped well enough not to be an obvious hack. But... why bother? The Senate didn't care enough to block her and they certainly aren't going to impeach her.

So democracy is working as designed.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 months ago

I also don't think it's too high of a bar for the public to want a judge not appointed by the defendant for a criminal trial.

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 20 points 5 months ago

Is anything "fundamentally disqualifying"? It appears to me that nothing is. It's all honor code bullshit that only works when everyone is acting in good faith.

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 5 months ago

In a normal court, the justices are often held in high regard, whereby whomever appointed them is hardly even a factoid.

The problem is that with Trump, he's known for quid pro quo as well as just not even knowing the person. Odds are good that Bannon slipped her name to Trump and suddenly she's "the most brilliant legal mind the nation has ever known. Just brilliant. Very smart."

Besides being nominated by Trump, I'm not sure if the prosecutors had any standing to have her recused.

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[-] suction@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Living in America 🎶

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 68 points 5 months ago

GOP doesn't hire people for their qualifications, only their perceived blind loyalty to the party

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 65 points 5 months ago

often has trouble understanding

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

[-] Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago

To me, it looks like she's feigning confusion just to give her yet another excuse to shit all over the prosecution. The defense made an absurd request, the judge acted like she was having trouble understanding until the prosecution said something out of frustration and Cannon hopped on him for it.

Serious question. No joke. no hyperbole. Outside of outright dismissing the case (which she already said she intends to do after the jury is seated, so double jeopardy attaches), has she made a single ruling that wasn't heavily in Trump's favor? Has a single dispute not ended with her somehow blaming and shitting on the prosecution?

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 26 points 5 months ago

Lawyer: Ok, so its a futuristic movie set in the distant past in a galaxy far far away... A galaxy is a collection of planetary sytems... Earth is a planet..... No. No that doesn't mean there's humans on .. Your honour its a fictional movie... No I'm not calling you stupid... Fine hold me in contempt.

[-] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Can't
Understand
Lawyer
Thinking

^ Aileen Cannon

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[-] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

This lady is a pathetically corrupt clown

[-] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 23 points 5 months ago

In her defense, she could also be incredibly stupid.

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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

Brainless twit is a threat to the U.S.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile in NY, he's guilty on all counts

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Sadly not that unusual. Lots of judges are . . . not great lawyers.

To be fair a judge mostly uses a slightly different skill set, practically speaking. But that doesn’t matter here, she’s objectively corrupt and terrible. Impeachment or trebuchet-to-the-sun.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 75 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What jurisdiction do you practice in, if you don't mind asking? I work in one of the bigger trial courts in the United States and have NEVER seen lawyers have to explain a concept like this to any judicial officer I've ever worked with across 5 years of trial. Aileen Cannon is a national disgrace.

[-] joekar1990@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago
[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Yeah this is embarrassing for her, frankly.

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[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Best as far as Trump is concerned for him.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Hand picked by Donald and rubber stamped by Mitch

[-] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

My Cousin Vinnie, but backwards

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 6 points 5 months ago
[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

You didn’t say the words right! The Army of Darkness will return.

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[-] DABDA@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

As part of an analysis of how [...]

'How' what? Either their editors suck and missed the opening sentence or I'm just incapable of parsing English anymore.

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