Judge Aileen Cannon faced criticism from a former Donald Trump lawyer following her failure to rule on whether the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago violated the former president's rights, giving his legal team the right to a full hearing.
Ty Cobb, who served on Trump's White House legal team, told CNN that the ruling by Cannon, a Trump appointee, was "highly irregular."
"She's in a hard place for herself," Cobb said. "She either has to disappoint Trump, which obviously is difficult for her, or she has to make a decision that supports Trump but will get her removed from the case when it goes [on appeal] to the 11th Circuit."
Cobb said that Cannon has shown bias toward Trump in her allowance of numerous motions that "most judges wouldn't have seen any merit to," including a motion to have Special Counsel Jack Smith removed from the case.
Cobb said it would not make a difference to the case if the Department of Justice sought a new prosecutor to replace Smith.
"To expedite things, they could take that course," he said. "But she [Cannon] has already done her duty to Trump by pushing this case off to the point where it's not going to get tried before the election."
Cannon indefinitely delayed the trial last month, pending the resolution of pretrial litigation issues concerning the classified evidence used by prosecutors. The judge has faced accusations of showing partiality toward the former president, including by choosing to delay the trial until after Election Day in November, as Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for a second term in the White House.
The case against Trump is based on 40 federal charges alleging that he illegally retained classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and obstructed the government's efforts to retrieve them. Trump's indictment came after the FBI served a warrant at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in August 2022.
In May, Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime when a New York City jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records regarding hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
He also faces federal felony charges in a Washington, D.C.-based case concerning 2020 election interference, while a separate state-level election subversion case remains active in Georgia.
Trump maintains his innocence in all cases and insists he is the victim of "persecution" and a "witch hunt" that he claims is being orchestrated by Democrats.
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