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A series of ex-government officials, law professors, and democracy groups are calling for Judge Aileen Cannon's removal from the classified documents criminal case against former President Donald Trump, based on decisions they say have created the appearance of bias. The Cannon-naysayers include former Republican Missouri Rep. Tom Coleman, former Republican New Jersey Governor Christine Todd

Trump-appointed Federal Judge Aileen Cannon was expected to do it all along and eventually did, tossing the case against him for refusing to return classified documents that he took from the White House. Special counsel Jack Smith, who she decided should not have been appointed in the first place, is now appealing the ruling. In a brief filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Smith says

FORT PIERCE — The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case agreed to pause certain pretrial deadlines Saturday in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's decision gives prosecutors and Trump's attorneys more time to explore how the high court's ruling affects the charges at hand. It is the latest in a

Former President Donald Trump’s legal team challenged some of the 41 counts in the classified documents case against him but the judge did not rule in his favor. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had already rejected several other motions to dismiss the case before ruling on Monday to do the same when Trump’s lawyers sought to dismiss more than a half dozen of the charges. Trump faces charges