{"id":2884,"date":"2023-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/trump-appointed-judge-assigned-to-oversee-classified-documents-indictment\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"trump-appointed-judge-assigned-to-oversee-classified-documents-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatebizglobal.com\/trump-appointed-judge-assigned-to-oversee-classified-documents-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-appointed judge is assigned to oversee classified documents indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"
The historic indictment and criminal case against former President Donald Trump will be overseen, at least initially, by a federal judge he appointed who has faced criticism for her handling of the case in its earlier stages.<\/p>\n
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Judge Aileen Cannon, a former federal prosecutor who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, has been randomly assigned to handle the federal criminal case involving the former president\u2019s handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-lago resort an hour south of where Cannon sits on the bench, sources told Fox News Digital Friday.<\/p>\n
Cannon will handle the initial court proceedings after the arraignment and her name appeared on a sealed federal summons issued to Trump to appear in court Tuesday afternoon, sources said.<\/p>\n
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Cannon was thrust into the spotlight last year when she issued what many legal experts saw as an extraordinary and unusually broad decision to appoint a “special master” to review the documents seized by the FBI.<\/p>\n
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