The judge presiding over former President Donald Trump's classified documents case could be given her walking papers and switched out with another judge if the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals acts.
That's the take by former federal prosecutor Ty Cobb, who in 2017 was part of the Trump administration's legal team to fend off impeachment.
"So the 11th circuit can make her step aside," he said during an appearance on CNN's "Out Front."
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Cannon has bungled Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents case, Cobb maintained, which has languished in her Fort Pierce, Florida courtroom by failing to calendar it and also ineptly shown to be way over her skis.
Indeed, Cannon has already been overturned by the higher court twice after special counsel Jack Smith appealed her decision on exposing classified information and exposing witnesses.
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Cobb called the move by the three-judge panel circuit court to be "irregular" to "reprimand" Cannon for what he called her "huge judicial interference in the criminal justice process in connection with the search warrant and her appointment of a special master and some other things she made up out of whole cloth."
Just today, it was learned that Cannon rebuffed recommendations to hand off the classified documents case to a more experienced judge when the assignment first landed in her lap.
Two more experienced colleagues on the federal bench in Florida, including Cecilia M. Altonaga — the chief judge in the Southern District of Florida — urged Cannon to pass on the complicated, high-profile case to another jurist, according to two sources briefed on the discussions who spoke to the New York Times.
Rather than accept their request, the Trump-appointed Cannon instead stayed on the case and has thus revealed some of her lack of experience. Her assignment immediately raised concerns about her impartiality after she previously intervened in ways that aided the ex-president in the criminal investigation that ultimately led to his indictment and drew a sharp rebuke from a conservative appeals court panel.
Cobb characterized Cannon's snail pace getting to trial as unexplainable.
"We're way beyond the point of characterizing her merely as inexperienced," he said. "I think it's like having a race between the tortoise and the hare, and saying the tortoise is not a favorite."
He added: "The reality is, she is slow and she's slow on purpose; she has already delayed this case far beyond where it needs to be.
"Keep in mind as late as March, both sides, Trump's lawyers and the prosecution said this case could be tried this summer."
And yet Cobb accuses Cannon of making that "impossible" and intentionally "pushed it all back on her by herself."
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