{"id":139907,"date":"2025-12-26T10:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/26\/lawyers-try-to-bench-aileen-cannon-from-case-arguing-shes-been-in-trumps-corner-one-too-many-times\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:02:37","slug":"lawyers-try-to-bench-aileen-cannon-from-case-arguing-shes-been-in-trumps-corner-one-too-many-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/26\/lawyers-try-to-bench-aileen-cannon-from-case-arguing-shes-been-in-trumps-corner-one-too-many-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She\u2019s Been In Trump\u2019s Corner One Too Many Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. \u2026 Trump hasn\u2019t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies. It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Professor Carl Tobias<\/a> of the University of Richmond School of Law, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan\u2019s lawyers to Chief District Judge Cecilia Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida, to block Judge Aileen Cannon from hearing the case. The letter submitted by Brennan\u2019s lawyers to Altonaga reads, in relevant part: \u201cThe United States attorney\u2019s efforts to funnel this investigation to the judge who issued this string of rulings that consistently favored President Trump\u2019s positions in previous litigations should be seen for what it is.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She\u2019s Been In Trump\u2019s Corner One Too Many Times<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. \u2026 Trump hasn\u2019t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies. It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this is an extraordinary situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> Professor Carl Tobias<\/a> of the University of Richmond School of Law, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning a request made by ex-CIA Director John Brennan\u2019s lawyers to Chief District Judge Cecilia Altonaga of the Southern District of Florida, to block Judge Aileen Cannon from hearing the case. The letter submitted by Brennan\u2019s lawyers to Altonaga reads, in relevant part: \u201cThe United States attorney\u2019s efforts to funnel this investigation to the judge who issued this string of rulings that consistently favored President Trump\u2019s positions in previous litigations should be seen for what it is.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Lawyers Try To Bench Aileen Cannon From Case, Arguing She\u2019s Been In Trump\u2019s Corner One Too Many Times<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I\u2019m sure she\u2019ll take it under consideration and look at it seriously. \u2026 Trump hasn\u2019t made a secret about the retribution that he is asking some of his U.S. attorneys to take against his perceived enemies. It is an extraordinary request, but maybe this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":139908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Staci-Zaretsky-unYMJv.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}