In June 2023, Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted President Trump under the Espionage Act for the non-crime of a former president retaining his presidential records, which is expressly allowed by the Presidential Records Act. Trump’s predecessors stored their documents in strip malls or in unsecured warehouses. Former Vice President — and even Senator — Joe Biden had no right to the boxes of stolen classified documents in his unsecured garage, office or in the China-compromised Penn Biden Center. Trump kept his presidential records in the highly secured Office of the Former President at Mar-a-Lago. Smith brought his indictment in the home district of Trump and Mar-a-Lago, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. This district has a random case assignment process, and Judge Aileen Cannon received the assignment June 9, 2023.
Over the past nearly two years, leftists have grown more deranged in their loathing of Judge Cannon because, unlike D.C. Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan, Judge Cannon refused to roll over for Jack Smith. A federal judge’s most important duties is to ensure criminal defendants get due process, a fair trial and equal treatment under the law. The judge’s crucial job is to protect defendants from prosecutorial misconduct and other government abuse. Judge Cannon issued rulings both for and against........