What is interesting about what she said, though, is that she's kicking all of this to the trial itself. And the trial could well be a mess, allowing Trump to raise defenses that really no one else would be allowed to raise and essentially scuttling a trial if she ever gets to one.
Former Judge Nancy Gertner comments on the implications of Judge Cannon's handling of Trump's motions and the potential impact on the trial.
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This is just pushing back on the judiciary, and then, when the judiciary does what they don’t want them to do, and the judiciary says this is wrong, trying to delegitimize that decision.
But what's troubling is the not so much the fact that the jury reached this verdict, but the implications of it.
this is power, it seems to me, that is baked into the Constitution and cannot be taken away.
Attacks on the judiciary by our President undermine that legitimacy and that faith.
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