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Someone should make a big deal about this — considering her constant thumb on the scales … of her not-so “speedy trial” — with national significance ...
Judge Cannon LUXURY GIFT SCANDAL Grows …
MeidasTouch — Michael Popok, May 7, 2024
[Partial automated transcript, reformatted for readability.]
This is Michael Popok, Legal AF. Judge Aileen Cannon presiding over Mar-a-Lago [case], Gotcha!
NPR has discovered that for two years running Judge Aileen Cannon, without disclosing it appropriately on the Federal Form she's required to disclose paid trips on, went not once but twice on all expense paid trips, sponsored by George Mason University and the Anthony Scalia School of Law, which was funded and founded officially by one Leonard Leo — the founder of the Federalist Society.
They hold colloquiums where they bring in lots of judges — all right-wing Republican judges — to the Federalist Society, to hear lectures on topics about woke law and the problem with that; and basically attacking the Democratic or Progressive agenda.
Aileen Cannon went on one of these all expense pay trips, probably totaling about $10,000 in 2021 and 2022, and certainly while she was presiding over a case involving Donald Trump.
Now look ProPublica just won a Pulitzer for exposing the all expense paid trips and relationships between Clarence Thomas and right-wing Maga donors that he's been taking for years, without disclosing it; and tens of thousands of dollars a year on yachts, on private jets, to hunting lodges. You know $2,000 a day — but he's not presiding at present over the Mar-a-Lago.
Cannon is, so we need to talk about her.
Now look, George Mason University is the rightest of right-wing universities. It's a law school named after Anthony Scalia, funded by the Koch brothers, funded by Leo Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society. You can sort of figure out what is going on inside of that incubator, right. And Federalist federal judges and Supreme Court judges regularly go to George Mason University for colloquiums and seminars, and all expense paid boondoggles, that are paid for by these right-wing MAGA people, to rub elbows with other right-wing MAGA people, before they return to the bench to make decisions for you and me.
Justice is blind — um I don't think so, and certainly not on these all expense paid trips and luxury resorts.
Now Aileen Cannon is not the only person that participates in these kind of events sponsored by George Mason University and the law school. There are 75 other judges, appellate and district court judges, Federal, that have also participated. Some of the Supreme Court Justices that I've just outlined:
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Amy Cony Barrett have all uh, Thomas, Alito have all at one time or another taken an all expense paid trip, paid for by the Federalist Society.
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For someone who demands “transparency” regarding national secrets and jurors personal details, Trump-appointed judge Cannon sure has a problem with demanding “transparency” from herself.
Probably something she picked up from the Federalist Society’s handbook: Rules for thee, but not for me.
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