The fact that Aileen Cannon was made a judge with a lifetime appointment was bad from the get-go, but it becomes clearer by the hour just how bad her appointment was.
This New York Times article (gift link) details just how thin her experience is.
As she heads toward overseeing one of the highest profile cases in history, which will have many motions, take a lot of courtroom management, and take a long time, the Times found that she has presided over only four routine criminal trials. They took 14 days altogether.
Before she was a judge, Cannon's criminal experience as an attorney was not particularly great either. In her seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney, only four of her cases went to trial. She was lead attorney on two of those, both involving a felon accused of having a firearm. This sounds like a junior's junior.
Her intellectual bona fides are, if anything, lighter than that. The list of articles she listed in her questionnaire consisted of 17 pieces for a summer internship in college and three case studies for her law firm's website (and those had co-authors).
And that's without mentioning the fact that Cannon was appointed by the person she would be trying — a person who she has already shown bias toward.
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