Jeffrey Toobin Lights Up Aileen Cannon Over Latest Decision in Trump Docs Case: ‘She Is Trying to Kill This Prosecution’

Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin took U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to task for kicking the can down the road yet again in Donald Trump’s criminal case in Florida.

The former president has been indicted in federal court for what Special Counsel Jack Smith says was his willful retention of classified material after leaving office. Prosecutors alleged Trump attempted to obstruct their retrieval by the government.

Cannon, who was appointed to her post by Trump in 2020, has made a series of rulings that have confounded legal experts, who say she is slow-walking the case to ensure that it does not begin before November’s election, when Trump is slated for a rematch with President Joe Biden. Last month, Cannon flat-out postponed the trial indefinitely.

On Wednesday, she made another unusual decision regarding Trump’s request that Smith’s appointment as special counsel be invalidated. Cannon will allow outside parties unconnected to the case to offer arguments during a hearing set to begin on June 21.

That last provision struck Toobin as bizarre, if not telling.

“This whole way she has conducted this case is wildly, totally, crazily unusual,” he said on Wednesday’s AC360 on CNN. “And the allowing of outsiders to participate in a day-and-a-half hearing that most judges would decide on briefs or maybe give 10 minutes aside to argue is just another illustration that she is trying to kill this prosecution. That’s the only conclusion you can draw. No other judge in the federal system that I’m aware of would treat these issues anything like what she’s trying to do.”

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