Anthony Coley, former chief spokesperson for Attorney General Merrick Garland, on Thursday slammed Judge Aileen Cannon for “intentionally dragging her feet” on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, accusing the Florida judge of doing the former president’s “bidding.”
Coley joined MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin to discuss Trump’s ongoing legal battles, including the indefinitely postponed election subversion case in Fulton County, Georgia and the pending classified documents case currently under way in Florida.
Discussing Cannon’s actions in the classified documents case, Coley unloaded on the district judge.
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“[Cannon] is somebody who appears to be intentionally dragging her feet on this case, and every time you turn around, she does not engender confidence in how this case is proceeding,” Coley said.
Noting he’s “talked to many people, many lawyers including judges and former judges in Florida,” Coley argued “there's no reason that this case shouldn't have started by now. These pretrial motions should have been over by now."
“I’m going to tell you, intentionally dragging her feet,” he continued. “And, you know, I'll be careful here because some people will say that, ‘Anthony, that's not fair to her.’ That she's a newer judge. she's dealing with classified documents material. She's in a satellite facility up in the northern part of the county, and she's not able to be mentored by senior judges. And all of that may be true, but that does not negate her responsibility to follow the rules of criminal procedure or acknowledge settled law.”
“I'll make one more point on this,” Coley added. “In two weeks she is going to hold a two-day hearing on whether or not [special counsel] Jack Smith was appropriately appointed, but this issue has already been settled in the federal level, and she's going to have outside counsel come intentionally drag dragging her feet. She is doing — appears to be doing — Donald Trump's bidding, and when people talk about the two-tiered justice system and how the wealthy and the privileged appear to have it better, this is what they’re talking about.”
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