Cannon Fire!

The federal judge in the Trump classified documents trial postponed indefinitely.

Special prosecutor Jack Smith is going to request for a judge because U.S. District Court judge Alieen Cannon is incompetent. While she is within her right to hold a trial or not, the former president, Donald J. Trump is not above the law and this will show how unprecedented her legal skills are.

Donald J. Trump represents the very definition of white privilege. 

The trial had been scheduled to start May 20 but it was postponed indefinitely.

“The Court ... determines that finalization of a trial date at this juncture—before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and CIPA issues remaining and forthcoming—would be imprudent and inconsistent with the Court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions before the Court, critical CIPA issues, and additional pretrial and trial preparations necessary to present this case to a jury,” Cannon wrote Tuesday. “CIPA” is a reference to the Classified Information Procedures Act.

“The Court therefore vacates the current May 20, 2024, trial date (and associated calendar call), to be reset by separate order following resolution of the matters before the Court, consistent with Defendants’ right to due process and the public’s interest in the fair and efficient administration of justice,” she added.

Cannon also scheduled additional hearings on some of the pending issues, with the first one in May and the last one in late July. That schedule would mean the case is unlikely to go to trial before August. Trump has argued that going to trial in the weeks before the November election would amount to political interference because he should otherwise be campaigning.

U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith will use his legal authority to get federal judge Alieen Cannon removed.

Trump is waiting on a Supreme Court decision about his claim of presidential immunity in a separate federal case in Washington, D.C., where he is accused of crimes related to the effort to overturn the 2020 election.

He has argued that any decision in that case could influence his other criminal cases, including the ongoing hush money trial in New York.

Trump faces dozens of felony charges, including willful retention of national defense information, false statements and representations, conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and corruptly concealing a document. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Trump’s co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira have also pleaded not guilty to the related charges against them. Special counsel Jack Smith has accused Nauta, who was Trump’s valet and continued to work for him after he left the White House, and De Oliveira, a property manager at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, of seeking to erase security video at Mar-a-Lago after the Justice Department sought to obtain it. De Oliveira is also accused of making false statements to prosecutors.