Aileen Cannon
Yet another example of why it was brilliant for McConnell and the Republicans to infest the federal bench in recent years with radical right-wing judges.
Read about Aileen Cannon’s background and her membership in the Federalist Society.
Ruling Allowing a Special Master
CASE NO.22-81294-CIV-CANNON (PDF)
“As a function of Plaintiff’s former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own,” Cannon wrote. “A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude.” [efn_note]cnn.com, Tierney Sneed, Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb and Holmes Lybrand, September 5, 2022 – Judge grants Trump’s request for a ‘special master’ to review materials seized from Mar-a-Lago[/efn_note]