Special Prosecutor Jack Smith did more than fire a warning shot across judge Aileen Cannon's bow. He "bracketed" her, surrounded her with fire. Cannon recently issued another strange order, requesting input from both the prosecution and defense on a...
Desperation is as desperation does. Donald Trump is desperate, and he's got two loony lawyers that are desperate. Well, he's got a lot more than two loony lawyers in his stable, but right now the two that are whinnying...
I'm serioius. Is federal District Court judge Aileen "Loose" Cannon deliberately trying to get kicked off the National Security Case against Trump down in Florida? Trial judges, whether state or federal have a lot of discretion during a case....
We're having so much good news today that this might be too good to be true. Yes, it looks like Aileen Cannon is attempting to stack the deck in Trump's favor. And it looks like that could lead to...
It was troubling that Judge Aileen "Loose" Cannon even held a hearing on Trump's motion to dismiss his Florida indictment. I felt concerns she'd do so were overblown for reasons I'll discuss in a bit. What matters in the...
A crooked judge is a terrible thing. When you can't trust the judiciary, you have no safeguard to the rule of law and when that basic guard rail is gone, then goodbye democracy. I am put in mind of...
Another step downward in the normalcy of the GOP and this election. The only question that everybody from normal people to psychologists to political scientists are asking is, "How weird is this going to get?" And nobody knows the...
I woke up this morning to see that federal Judge Aileen "Loose" Cannon appears to have come to her senses, as she has for a welcome change issued a ruling favoring Special Counsel Jack Smith instead of siding with...
If you find it surprising that I'd defend Attorney General Merrick Garland I can understand. If you read my stuff you've seen me rip him to shreds almost every time. Even I'M surprised to find myself writing this. Still,...
As the hours pass this Saturday afternoon Special Counsel Jack Smith has a seriously tough decision to make. DC or Florida? He has prosecutions of Trump in the works in both jurisdictions and as early as last fall it...

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