The Daily Populous Saturday December 27th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by abovethelaw.com and submitted by ColonyJD1980

Ed. note : Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.

I’m sure she’ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. … Trump hasn’t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies. It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation.

— Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law, in comments given to Law.com, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s lawyers to Chief District Judge Cecilia Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida, to block Judge Aileen Cannon from hearing the case. The letter submitted by Brennan’s lawyers to Altonaga reads, in relevant part: “The United States attorney’s efforts to funnel this investigation to the judge who issued this string of rulings that consistently favored President Trump’s positions in previous litigations should be seen for what it is.”

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2HDFloppyDisk on December 26th, 2025 at 22:06 UTC »

Aileen “I do what I want” Cannon. Ignoring case law year after year.

Unusual-Plantain8104 on December 26th, 2025 at 22:05 UTC »

She should be in jail.

StrangerFew2424 on December 26th, 2025 at 22:03 UTC »

It's not that she's in Trump's corner, it's that she constantly breaks the law for Trump...