Donald Trump’s favorite judge is suddenly losing law clerks.

Donald Trump’s favorite judge is suddenly losing law clerks.

Judge Aileen Cannon has been moving alarmingly slowly in setting up a trial date for Donald Trump’s classified documents criminal case—but it may not be a bid to help out the man who appointed her.

As of Thursday, the Florida judge had lost at least two law clerks in the last six months, who up and quit on her rather than finish out their one-year terms, according to several sources within Cannon’s legal circuit that spoke with attorney David Lat.

The rarity of multiple clerks leaving their posts can’t be understated, especially considering that judges typically hire just two or three clerks per annum. As Lat notes in his Substack Original Jurisdiction, “a law clerk’s role is substantive, not clerical or administrative.” Clerks are more like a judge’s right and left hands—they help the judiciary conduct research, prepare for trials, and draft opinions. Clerkships are highly competitive, and one serving a federal judge would otherwise be considered résumé gold, so it’s certainly curious that they seem to be fleeing her bench.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m not readily skeeved by differences in people, but I’ll be honest, this woman creeps me out hard. Her eyes, specifically. Something absolutely NOT right in there, and that’s before you get to all the weirdness regarding Trump.

    And that involves her placing her entire judicial career on the line time after time, even risking censure and certainly many appeals, to help the con man that is Donald Trump by making obviously partisan and overtly inexplicable rulings in his favor, not once but regularly. As though she’s placing herself like a cloak over legal puddles in his way, daring anyone to stop her, chivalrously rescuing him from his own repercussions.

    It’s ALL weird with her. ALL bizarre and inexplicable, even from the standpoint of everyday banal corruption. People who throw events for cash, be it a baseball game or a court case, are generally a bit more slick about it, trying to justify it with bullshit that’s less overtly attention grabbing, and not Every Single Time it’s in their hands, like someone who’s on the take but still wants to have a career to show for it at the end.

    With her, it’s almost like she wants everyone to see that she’s throwing rulings for Trump. Rather than a payoff or gratitude for her appointment, it’s more like she’s actively in love with him and has some kind of personal fixation/fantasy with him that she proves to him from her professional occupation as often as she can.

    And then there’s her creepy ass alien eyes.

    So for me, the real question is how she keeps clerks at all.