Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford): Amicus Wrong to Call for Judge Cannon’s Removal
I’m delighted to pass along this item from my Stanford colleague Prof. Michael McConnell (who also served for several years on the Tenth Circuit):
The National Law Journal reports that retired district court judge Nancy Gertner, joined by ethics experts Stephen Gillers and James Sample, have filed an amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit asking that the court reassign the Trump Classified Documents case to a judge other than Judge Aileen Cannon on remand (assuming that the court does not affirm dismissal of the case).
The only reason the brief gives for reassigning the case is that the writers think “[a] reasonable member of the public could conclude, as many have, that the dismissal was the culmination of Judge Cannon’s many efforts to undermine and derail the prosecution of this case.” The brief points to decisions by Judge Cannon that the writers think were overly sympathetic to Trump, such as her 2022 ruling (reversed by the Eleventh Circuit) appointing a special master to review the documents, as well as what the writers call a “patt
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