Judge Cannon’s Pro-Trump Trickery Is About to Get Even More Shameless

This week, Judge Aileen Cannon gave Donald Trump two more big assists. She agreed to hold a multi-day hearing on the constitutionality of the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith. And she appeared skeptical of Smith’s demand for a gag order on one of Trump’s most deranged attacks on law enforcement yet. We talked to law professor Corey Brettschneider, author of a new book called The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It . He vividly explains how Cannon is enabling Trump to attack the rule of law itself — and the dark antecedents this has in U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices