Anyone else tired of that smug headshot every news article uses of her? If this woman a recluse? How are there no other photos of her?
That’s probably the official photo published by the government.
I just assume she has resting smug face.
Rotten to the core.
So a judge appointed by Trump doesn’t want to tell Trump to shut up? Who would have ever guessed.
I guess this is the good preview of what the case would devolve to.
Yes appointed by Trump but confirmed by 11 Democrats and 45 Republicans. And we could say those not in the roll call tacitly voted to confirm so that’s another 13 Democrats who confirmed her. Trump can get fucked, but just like Biden, the president was/is not solely responsible for what happens in the world.
Next time Trump and repubes whine about unfair and rigged courts - show them this exhibit A.
Judiciary is politically motivated and republicans are solely to blame for it.
They’ll say she’s fair. There’s not a hypocrisy gotcha that’s going to get them to change their course.
This furthers the argument that all judges should be elected
No, no, no, a thousand times no to this idea.
Do you really want judges making rulings based on what is the reddest of red meat for their base so they can get re-elected? Because that would be a great way for rural states to quickly become live-action versions of the Handmaid’s Tale in record time. Cannon herself would likely be re-elected based on how she’s handled the Trump case so far; if anything, having to worry about re-election would probably make her more brazenly corrupt, not less because it would be Trump’s base that would be putting her back on the bench.
Dude …look around…we are already at what you’re describing when it comes to Republican leaning judges.
No, it is a good argument for the congressional review process to actually pay attention to who is being nominated.
Trump was elected.
So we can add another name to the rich and/or powerful who get to abuse our justice system for their own personal ends with nary a consequence in sight.
I gotta tell you, this is becoming the thing I’m most ashamed of about the current state of our country, and that’s saying something, because I’ve got a pretty long list.
Shocked, just shocked.
From the article:
“In a brief order, Cannon slammed prosecutors for not following the court’s rules by failing to meaningfully confer with Trump’s defense lawyers about a potential gag order before making the request.”
Maybe it’s just me but this sounds an awful lot like she’s denying the motion because the prosecutors…didn’t ask the Trump team for permission to file the motion? Am I reading that right? The prosecution needs permission from the defense to file a motion for a gag order?
Lawyers, please tell me that Cannon is once again just being extraordinarily stupid. This can’t be normal, right? To me, this is like a domestic abuse victim having to ask the abuser for the right get a restraining order.
It really depends on what these rules are
As I understand it, they don’t need to ask permission, but they need to make an actual attempt at a diplomatic resolution before making the formal request. If that doesn’t go to their liking, then they would speak to the judge.
It should have been a formality, because in all likelihood, the defense would have politely told the prosecutors to get fucked, but they really shouldn’t have skipped that step.
Maybe it’s a good way to test the waters to add to their concrete examples of bias.
It’s not like they expect the gag order to be followed or enforced anyway. Judge Merchan has enough issues with that, and we already know Cannon will have less than no interest.
Your honor, I have a hundred examples of Trump violating gag orders from/checks notes/ the past 2 weeks. Asking them would be an insult in the first place.
This is what “justice” is for the rich. The rest of us would be serving time in double digits by now. They just get the judges in their pockets to pull strings.
just
This is what leads me to worry you’re oversimplifying something. Is it cool if we avoid the generalizations here? We can all confidently say Mr Trump isn’t a very upstanding cretin, but don’t let him take your rep down.
Wow, she’s a real loose cannon1.
1 I mean how could you not?
what a goddamn joke, she has literally NO qualifications to be a judge let alone a judge for one of the most important cases in the history of the fuckin country.
Absolutely pathetic, everybody in the goddamn law profession should be ashamed. Nothing but clowns
She’s exceptionally competent in one area of law: fucking it up.
Cannon lacks substance and professionalism of any kind.
Other shoe will drop immediately. Fuck you, Cannon.
When is the prosecution allowed to appeal(?) for a different judge due to obvious bias for the defense?
she is reaping the every living fuck out of this.
Wonder what she is going to inevitably sow…
Isn’t that backwards?
it follows the wording of the original phrase. Which does mean it’s backwards, but i think it’s funnier that way.
Nope. She’s reaping what he sowed. What comes next is being sown now.
So, uh…we going to plan protests yet, or…
When does all this become too much for the left? Cause I gotta say: We are being VERY lenient so far. We basically look at the Republicans and go “Okay, act like babies. We’ll just rise above it.” and gotta say: It isn’t working.
I’m pretty hard against Trump and the Republican Party. I support Progressive policies and laws regardless of where they come from. What really irks me is how damned unresponsive people on the Left are. I feel like all we do is talk about what-if’s and what-could-be’s. Hell, part of me was surprised Gaza caused any protest at all with how damned passive everyone over here so often is in comparison to the raving lunatics over on the Right. It’s appalling and frustrating.
The moment leftists actually protest, right wingers and centrists (Biden) will happily send in the military to give em the Black Panthers treatment
Meanwhile right wingers are allowed to do whatever they want, up to and including Jan 6th
Meanwhile Georgia is in the process of passing a law to label outside organizations as foreign agents and they had immediate protests. We’re having our justice and political system blatantly turned toward service of a minority political faction lead by a fascist criminal and we think it would be inappropriate to demand they act differently.
