Aileen Cannon or Loose Cannon as I prefer to call her is doing some bias things and questionable things and when a conservative calls for her to step down from the case regarding the government’s classified documents, well then it is a bit telling.
Counter Punch did a deep dive into her life and to say the least it is questionalbe.
Counter Punch revealed the following:
In this column, I take a deeper look into two different areas of Judge Cannon’s life: first, her husband’s purchase of property in 2020 shortly after her nomination and before her confirmation, and second, her recent paperless minute orders in the Mar-a-Lago case. The juxtaposition of these two unrelated activities is suggestive and possibly revealing.
Cannon’s Home
According to public records,* Judge Aileen Cannon’s husband, Joshua Lorence, purchased their home in Vero Beach, Florida on August 24, 2020 for $750,000, only three months after Trump nominated her and one month after her confirmation hearing, but three months before she was confirmed.
*(Note that for public and property records, I provide the general links only, not specific to Cannon, Lorence, or their addresses.)
That the couple purchased this home at that moment, after her nomination by Trump but before she was confirmed to the bench, suggests she was pretty confident, if not assured, that she was going to be confirmed. You don’t purchase a home worth three-quarters of a million dollars without knowing you can afford it (and without showing a bank you can).
Now I am not a mathematician but where did that money come from?
Public records do not show that Cannon herself owns or purchased the house in Vero Beach, which according to property records is a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house with 3671 heated square footage. Neither owner information nor purchase price are visible for this home on the property records site.
She had a mortgage of $157,500 on previously owned property in Michigan and currently appears to co-own an apartment in Key Largo with a 2022 assessed value of $471,058. (Public records and property records both show a co-owner but with different names.)
Something just does not set right with me on this situation.
The salary of Cannon and her husband took me aback giving them the opportunity to afford such a home.
From 2013 to 2020, she served as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida. (Current salary for Florida federal prosecutors is about $67k/year.)
Lorence was a restaurant manager in or around Miami when they married (2008). A June 2023 article states that Lorence has been the Chief Operating Officer for Bobby’s Burgers since 2015, based in Charlotte, N.C. A workplace transparency website states that the 2023 “estimated total pay for a Chief Restaurant Operations Officer is $92,206 per year in the United States area, with an average salary of $73,797 per year.”
Now let’s look at this. I have questions, especially knowing Donald Trump is famous for inflating and deflating values of money .
Recently...a conservative said she needs to step down from the Trump case. We all think so but why does he? He also wants her impeached.
A leading member of a conservative think tank is now calling for US District Judge Aileen Cannon — the Trump-appointed judge overseeing the former president's classified documents trial — to be impeached.
In a response to the news Thursday evening that Judge Cannon was refusing to set a key pre-trial deadline until next year, Norman Ornstein — an Emeritus scholar at the Koch-funded American Enterprise Institute — called for an impeachment resolution to be introduced against Cannon.
"She is a full fledged member of the Trump defense team. Aileen Cannon is utterly unfit for the bench," Ornstein tweeted. "[The resolution] will go nowhere but will highlight her outrageous conduct."
This article came from The Smirking Chimp.
The article from Deep Dive at Counterpunch feels this judge needs investigating.
Given her current practice in the Mar-a-Lago case of issuing paperless scheduling orders instead of putting into writing a proper decision on any point, thus avoiding being appealed and reversed, it is clear that Cannon disagrees with the 11th Circuit’s reversal of her assertion of equitable jurisdiction and appointment of a special master in 2022. In other words, she still thinks she was right and the 11th Circuit was wrong. She is not going to allow the 11th Circuit to tell her what to do; she is going to do what SHE thinks is right.
This kind of arrogance coming from a relatively young, inexperienced judge is in itself alarming. But the point I made earlier about her husband’s purchase of property before her confirmation is that her arrogance does not arise solely from her own hubris but is connected to some unrevealed affiliations — either via the Federalist Society or Republicans in power.
They basically say regardless who is calling the shots...it bears further investigation.
In fact the direct quote is this.
But if there are others involved in her decision-making who have hidden agendas, that could impact her impartiality. The timing of the purchase of her Vero Beach home in relation to her confirmation raises questions that need to be further investigated.
Seems like wherever there is smoke...there is a fire and in this case some are speculating a wildfire.