Aileen Cannon to oversee case against alleged Trump assassin Ryan Routh

The case against Ryan Routh is coming to a head (as I predicted); federal prosecutors in South Florida are now charging him with attempted murder of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

And guess which federal district judge was randomly assigned to try this case? Aileen Cannon.

That’s right, this is the Trump-appointed judge whose dismissal of the Trump secret documents case is currently being challenged by special counsel Jack Smith, with outside parties urging the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to not only overturn Cannon’s dismissal but also appoint a new trial judge who does not share her obvious bias against the former president.

So what does Cannon’s pro-Trump history mean for Routh (who is presumed innocent until proven otherwise at trial or in a plea bargain)?

Possibly nothing. But one wonders if he might try to get Cannon out of his case because of her obvious favoritism towards the man he allegedly tried to kill.

Given the appeal of the classified documents before the 11th Circuit, Routh would not be the first to officially raise Cannon’s possible bias.

Of course, the judge herself could decide to recuse herself. One reason she would not do so in Routh’s case would be to avoid the negative impact it could have on her handling of Trump’s case. She obviously did not recuse herself at the time, and she will get the case back if Smith’s dismissal is overturned without a new judge being assigned (assuming Trump doesn’t win the election and completely collapse the federal court case).

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