There is absolutely no doubt about it now, Aileen “Loose” Cannon is corrupt:
- Suspicion began when she gave Drumpf’s lawyers multiple do-overs on their flawed initial complaint, providing suggestions in the process — in effect writing it for them.
- Upon receiving the complaint, she immediately stated she was inclined to rule in The Slobfather’s favor, before even hearing a response from the DOJ.
- She proceeded to not only rule in TFG’s favor, but provided extra relief that Mar-a-Lardo didn’t even request.
- Her ruling had little connection to the law, and was criticized by nearly the entire legal community as being farcical and blatantly biased.
- When the DOJ graciously offered her a chance to make a narrow revision, giving her an off ramp to gracefully back down from he highly flawed ruling and sparing her sure disgrace of losing an appeal, she declined and stuck to her guns.
- When Dearie stepped in and began handling the case like a real judge, she didn’t take the hint, and continued to stay her course.
- Finally, the 11th Circuit last week delivered Cannon a righteous smackdown in their partial stay of her ruling.
- Legal analysts considered the 11th Circuit’s ruling so humiliating to Cannon that we all thought she would finally retreat to her corner and cower in disgrace. At the time I said in this article “If she comes back for more punishment after being bitch slapped by both Dearie and the 11th Circuit, my suspicion would move from “she just wants to make Orange Daddy happy” to “he’s got something on her”.
- In today’s ruling, “Come on Aileen” Cannon basically thumbs her nose at both Dearie and the 11th Circuit, in a move so transparently biased that most observers are now referring to her unironically as being a member of Hair Fuhrer’s defense team.
The only questions now are:
- Why Cannon is so deep up Drumpf’s ass? Ideology run amok? Kompromat? Bribery?
- How hard will she get smacked down on appeal?
Let’s hope the answer to the second point is “with extreme prejudice” — if a judge as who is as biased as Cannon and issues rulings as far outside the law as she does isn’t neutralized and admonished by the appeals system, the judiciary as we know it has failed, and democracy may soon follow.