Judge Aileen Cannon Rebuffed Senior Colleagues’ Plea to Step Aside From Trump's Classified Documents Case

Cannon is the first judge in American history to preside over a criminal trial of the president who nominated that judge

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New reports came out last week from the New York Times that Judge Aileen Cannon was encouraged to step aside by senior judges from her position as the assigned judge to ex-president Donald Trump's classified documents case.

In June 2023, Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon was just two years and seven months into her…