U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon declined to recuse herself from the case of Ryan Routh, who is charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last month. The judge appointed to the federal bench by the alleged victim in Routh's case brushed aside the defendant's concerns about Trump's praise of Cannon and the possibility that he could promote her to even higher office if he's elected next week.

"I have no control over what private citizens, members of the media, or public officials or candidates elect to say about me or my judicial rulings," Cannon wrote in an order published Tuesday. "I have never spoken to or met former President Trump except in connection with his required presence at an official judicial proceeding, through counsel," added the judge who dismissed Trump's classified documents case in July.

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[–] 115 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Is this not potential grounds for a mistrial and a solid appeal?

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    Eh, by the time this goes to trial Trump could be in office. Then, as day one dictator, Trump declarse anyone who helped Ukraine at all are wartime traitors, use the guy's weird recruiting thing as evidence, and just summarily execute the guy.

    Edit: she's also on the short list to be AG. She may not even be a judge when this goes to trial.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    An appeal, sure.

    But I doubt they’re going to get a mistrial on it. Dude is guilty as hell. Probably going to lead to reduced sentencing, though. (All though that’s still gonna be at “you’re fucked” levels,)

    Edit: even if there is a mistrial, they’ll certainly be allowed to retry.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    That dude is getting the entire courthouse thrown at him to prove her allegiance to Fussolini is completely unwavering, again.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    And then he'll get a favorable appeal.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yep, she'll do some unnecessarily bullshit to tip the scales, and accidentally cause an obviously guilty guy to walk after an appeal on procedural grounds.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    For some reason, I'm not terribly torn up about that in this particular circumstance.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean, the guy is a piece of shit though, I'd rather him stay locked up instead of writing a book about how he tried to shoot the president.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    It wouldn't be the first time a dude showed up to a place with a gun wanting to kill people, killed people, and then got away with it scott free while conservative media fawned over him.

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  • guy is a piece of shit

    I'm not going to dispute that.

    I'd rather him stay locked up

    And that's entirely fair. I'm just not particularly in favor of someone who tried to [do a silly little thing to] him being punished. So if he gets off scott-free, I won't be particularly upset about it.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait, he's being charged with attempted assassination? Did he actually aim a gun at trump? Or was he just exercising his 2nd amendment rights?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The Dishonorable Aileen Qanon

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  • [+] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
  • Cannon: Bias? That's absurd. That's an absurd reason to get in the way of my Supreme Court appointment.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Someone PLEASE, get a camera and take another picture of this woman to use.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    This is a bit of a non-story.

    Department of Justice already decided not to reassign the case.

    Backed into a corner, the Justice Department finally took a stance on Cannon’s partiality on Oct. 21—at least in the context of the Routh prosecution. In a perfunctory, one-and-a-half-page filing, the government opposed Routh’s motion, stating that it did “not present either facts or case law requiring recusal on this record in light of the controlling standard.”

    Given that the Justice Department has already ruled on this, there was no way that Cannon was going to say "You might be right, I can't be impartial." Has she done that it would have also guaranteed her removal from the documents case when it is eventually reopened. Though I suspect she'll be removed from that anyway.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    cant really expect her to since her hero and benefactor was in danger /s.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Right, because this is the case that would make her care about presenting as impartial.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Not exactly on topic, but she looks like she could be a linebacker on a pro nfl team. That neck and jaw, both thick as fuck. I'm assuming the project 2025 team wrote that statement like pretty much everything that comes out of her stupid fucking mouth.

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