Calls for Judge Aileen Cannon to recuse herself from Donald Trump's trial continue as legal experts criticize her controversial rulings in his favour.
on charges relating to his handling of classified documents.
Cannon was nominated in 2020 by Trump to the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Before that, she was a federal prosecutor in the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District of Florida.Three well-known lawyers who worked with George Bush, and Barack Obama and one of them who is president of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan good government advocacy organisation, wrote an article in Slate magazine saying Judge Aileen must recuse herself.
Professor Emeritus at NYU Law Stephen Gillers says, a judge should recuse herself if her impartiality might be questioned.
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