These objections might have been premature: Interpreting a judge’s mindset, and assessing her shortcomings, from the outside can be difficult.
When Cannon demurred, the chief judge of the district called her and argued that her reversed decision earlier meant that her having this case would look bad.
But in this case, Trump stands accused of something very dangerous—extremely careless handling of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.
“It’s clear that she is going in a ridiculous direction,” Nancy Gertner, a retired federal judge, told Politico.
The attorneys Dennis Aftergut and Laurence Tribe wrote in Slate that Cannon “is quietly sabotaging” the case.
“Judge Cannon is proving that she is not fit for this moment,” the former CIA attorney Brian Greer wrote in the Times.
What affirms their concerns is that Cannon’s colleagues—people who intimately know the court, the law, and the judge herself—evidently agreed. »
