The judge assigned to the federal indictment case of former President Donald Trump is no stranger to the classified documents scandal or the former president himself.
The Justice Department unveiled a 49-page indictment on Friday that indicts Trump on 37 counts for charges related to alleged obstruction and mishandling of classified documents. An aide to the former president was indicted alongside Trump.Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida was randomly assigned to the case over the weekend.
Prior to serving as a federal judge, Cannon worked in several law firms in Washington, D.C., Florida, and Iowa. She served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Fort Pierce, Florida, for the Southern District of Florida. Trump nominated her to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in May 2020, and she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November 2020.
In September 2022, Cannon ruled in Trump's favor on a lawsuit he filed two weeks after the FBI raided his home in Mar-a-Lago in August. Cannon ruled that an independent special master should be appointed to review the documents seized by the FBI, particularly after it was revealed that Trump's personal information and medical records were among the documents found.
However, Cannon's pause on the DOJ's use of classified documents was reversed by an appeals court later in the month, and the entire special master process was tossed out by a higher court in December. She will remain as the presiding judge unless she recuses herself.If she remains the overseer of Trump's criminal case, this means she could oversee a jury trial and have the final decision as to what prison sentence Trump would receive if he is convicted.
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