OF COURSE: Retired Bill Clinton judge wants Trump judge kicked off classified docs case

A retired Bill Clinton judge along with some leftist watchdog group wants Judge Aileen Cannon kicked off of Trump’s classified documents case.

Retired Judge Nancy Gertner and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington are filing amicus briefs with the 11th Circuit in the appeal of the case by illegal special prosecutor Jack ‘Hack’ Smith to try and get Cannon removed from the case.

Here’s more from Yahoo News:

A former federal judge along with a government watchdog group and two top scholars on judicial ethics want an appeals court to reassign the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump to a new judge.

The group is seeking to file an amicus brief with the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals, criticizing the way Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents prosecution earlier this summer, has handled the criminal case.

They also took issue with Cannon allowing Trump to slow down the federal investigation in 2022 by appointing a special master to review evidence and blocking investigators’ access to documents seized at his Mar-a-Lago estate. The 11th Circuit reversed Cannon’s decisions on this matter.

Retired Judge Nancy Gertner, who was a federal trial judge in Massachusetts; legal ethics scholars Stephen Gillers and James J. Sample, and the government watchdog group known as Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington are seeking to file the brief with the Atlanta-based appeals court that is considering whether Cannon’s dismissal decision should be reversed. Cannon had said in her ruling that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.

It is very rare for appeals courts to reassign a trial judge on a case. Smith notably did not request for Cannon to recuse herself or for the case to be reassigned in his filings. An amicus brief, or “friend of the court” brief, is from someone who is not a party to the case and is merely meant to provide information to the court. It is up to the court how much legal weight — if any at all – is given to an amicus brief.

There are people in this country who just can’t stand to see Trump win and will do everything in their power to stop it. That’s all this is about.

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