Aileen Cannon, Judge in Trump Assassination Case, Refuses to Recuse Herself – The New York Times

Mr. Routh s lawyers first asked Judge Cannon to remove herself from the case two weeks ago. In their initial request, they argued that Mr. Trump had repeatedly praised her rulings in a separate case in which he stood accused of illegally holding onto classified documents after he left office.

In an unexpected decision in that matter, Judge Cannon threw out all the charges against Mr. Trump in July, ruling against decades of legal precedent that Jack Smith, the special counsel who filed the indictment, had been illegally appointed to his job.

But in her decision on Tuesday, Judge Cannon rebuffed the idea that she had been affected by Mr. Trump s praise. She said she had in fact never met or spoken to the former president except in connection with his required presence in her courtroom for hearings in the classified documents case.

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Too bad for Mr. Routh.