Andrew Weissmann Slams Judge Cannon’s ‘Bonkers’ Rulings: ‘She Does Not Have the Tools to Handle a Case That’s This Complicated’

MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann took U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to task over a series of rulings she has made in former President Donald Trump’s favor.

Cannon is presiding over Trump’s classified documents case in which Special Counsel Jack Smith alleges the former president willfully retained classified documents and obstructed the government’s attempts to retrieve them. The judge, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, has issued several decisions that have perplexed legal experts and prompted a pair of reversals by the Eleventh  Circuit Court of Appeals.

Weissmann appeared on Monday’s Deadline: White House on MSNBC, where guest host John Heilemann asked what Cannon’s deal is.

“Politically biased, bozo, or both?” Heilemann asked.

Weissmann responded:

So, I actually think it’s both. There’s no question she’s inexperienced. And she does not have the tools to handle a case that is this complicated. That’s clear. There’s, you know, everyone’s seen that. We also do have the fact that the Eleventh Circuit, a conservative circuit that she is in, reversed her not once, but twice. And those were conservative judges who just thought she was absolutely bonkers in terms of her rulings.

And of course, both times that she was overturned, her rulings were for Trump. It’s not like she’s inexperienced and sometimes she gets it right for Trump and sometimes she gets it right or wrong for the government. They’re always siding with Donald Trump and it’s very, very hard at this point to see her as being anything other than partisan.

Cannon is currently entertaining a motion by Trump’s attorneys who argue that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional. However, as several legal scholars have noted, the constitutionality of special and independent counsels has been repeatedly upheld by federal courts.

Trump has pleaded not guilty to all counts in the case, whose trial start date Cannon has indefinitely postponed. Critics say Cannon is slow-walking the case to prevent it from going to trial before November’s election.

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