Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon keeps using her vast discretion over her docket to Donald Trump’s benefit. She added a new dimension to that approach this week, further confirming that the former president won’t face trial in Florida this year. Perhaps more importantly, the Trump appointee’s latest maneuvers call into even more significant question how she’d handle any trial that happens in the classified documents case — if one ever happens.
And in shuffling the calendar in an order Wednesday — which lays out the upcoming dates — Cannon canceled a multiday hearing over another defense motion she previously set for June 24-26. That will now happen at some uncertain point in the future, along with other issues holding up a possible trial against the presumptive GOP nominee, who will likely crush this case and his other federal case if he wins in November.
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