Aileen Cannon - the Trumpiest Judge ever

and Democrats helped put her on the bench.

MSNBC Legal Analyst John Heilemann on “Morning Joe” after Judge Cannon’s decision to allow Donald Trump a “special master”, the denial of a stay of the DOJ’s investigation, and her blindness to the nature of the national security risks in play.

”[Cannon is] basically saying, 'OK, so I'm this new judge, appointed here by Trump, Trump came to my court in one of the most naked examples of forum shopping I've ever seen, they came here looking for something, I don't care what this looks like, I'm not just going to rule in his favor, I'm not just going to give him more than he asked for, I'm going to write my opinion that these documents that have been stamped classified, that have been reviewed by the intel community and identified as classified, that the basis of the warrant is that they are classified, they are brought back on the basis of the search and they found them to be classified.'

“[Cannon] in her courtroom says, 'You know what, all of that, and the big bright red letters, classified stamped on the documents,' she's like, 'I'm not sure those documents are classified.'

"That is literally the Trumpiest thing that a Trump judge has ever written.”

Heilemann went on:

“It's the pure essence of the kind of judicial corruption that Trump has brought on the court system, and you know, the reason you wouldn't do it, and the reason we're stunned by it, you're a country lawyer and I'm a poor country pumpkin, we used to say, that's the thing about judges, they often depart from the person who appointed them. You can never count on it. You know, that day has passed now. A lot of these judges, and this one first and foremost, are political hacks. She doesn't care about the stuff that any other judge would care about."

Confirmed by the Senate after the 2020 election with 10 Democrats supporting the nomination.¹ Seriously.

If the Democrats want to make Supreme Court extremism a political issue, they need to draw a line in the sand on putting Federalist Society members on the bench for starters.

1. https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1162/vote_116_2_00228.htm