To Donald Trump, ethics and laws are for losers, and judges you appoint are supposed to rule in your favor. That caused humiliation for the former president when “his” three U.S. Supreme Court justices refused to overturn Joe Biden’s election or shield his financial records from investigators.
But another of Trump’s judges lived up — or more fittingly, down — to his crude expectations.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, one of 14 judicial nominees whom the Senate confirmed after Trump’s 2020 defeat but before Biden took office, astounded legal experts with a broad-brush order requiring a special master to review the government documents recovered by the FBI in its search of Mar-a-Lago last month and halting for now the agency’s investigation.
