Before indicting Donald Trump last year for allegedly mishandling classified documents, federal prosecutors had to decide where to bring the charges: Washington, DC, or Florida.
Ultimately, they charged the former president in Florida, a decision that has proven to be a fateful one — underscored by the vastly different approaches taken by DC judges as compared to the federal judge now presiding over the criminal case in Florida.
Those approaches became apparent in the past week as opinions were unsealed from two DC federal judges indicating how much more quickly and harshly for Trump the case might have played out had it remained in Washington.
Bradley Moss, a DC-based lawyer with extensive national security experience, said that the ruling from Howell provided Cannon a “clear road map” to consider the attorney-client privilege issues.
But Cannon hasn’t even scheduled a hearing on the topic, which the parties began arguing over in court papers in February.
“That she continues to sit on the matter is inexcusable,” Moss said.
They didn’t know which of the 18 district judges they would get by moving the case to the southern district of Florida. She was assigned by a random software selection process, standardly used for cases such as these. He just got extremely lucky.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/12/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-documents-case-00101641
This is how I know that either (1) God doesn’t exist or (2) if he does, he has a sick sense of humor.
Just read the Bible; God is an absolute cunt.
I vote sick sense of humor
Yes, that’s another good point. They played the odds.
I don’t know if they factored it as “1 in 18 chance we get delayed until election” or thought Cannon would maintain some semblance of objectivity even if they got her, but it probably helped reassure them to roll the dice in Florida.