have to indicate what they would like to use at trial. a lot of work to do, you need your team in place to get there. joyce, in terms of judge cannon, i know that there has been a lot of we spend a lot of time on her cv yesterday, a lot of people have focused on her rulings in the special master case, which were highly controversial, and ultimately turned down, if you will. she, today, as you pointed out, added an order to trump s docket. that would suggest she is not recusing herself from this case. is that a fair assessment and you think, at this point, there is any chance she might? so, i think she has not recuse yet. but she has not been asked to. the justice department has not filed a motion asking her to recuse. we don t know what she would do if they file that motion. they may also decide to play the long game here, and wait and see if she makes an additional ruling that is sort of in the same category as her
coast of sisters and law podcast. it is always good to talk with you, especially on a matter like this where i think a lot of people do not know what exactly lawyers would be doing at this stage of the game. and why it is important for trump to have counsel representing him. can you shed some light on that for us? this is a critical case to have a strong defense team from the start. one of the reasons we know that, we saw judge cannon enter an order directing trump s lawyers to proceed as quickly as possible to get security clearances so that they could begin to review the government evidence in this case. that is not a job for one lawyer, it may not even be a job for two lawyers, frankly, the evidence looks to be fairly complicated and voluminous. the defense lawyers do not have a lot of time to get to work here. they will need to prepare their emotions, they need to review the classified documents and under the statute, they will have to indicate what they would like to use at tria
a lot of people have focused on her rulings in the special master case highly controversial and ultimately turned down, if you will. she today as you point out added an order to trump s docket. that would suggest she s not recusing herself from this case. is that a fair assessment? and do you think at this point there s any chance she might? so i think she hasn t recused yet, but she has not been asked to. the justice department has not filed a motion asking her to recuse. we don t know what she would do if they filed that motion. they may also decide to play the long game here and wait and see if she makes an additional ruling that s sort of in the same category as her earlier rulings on the search warrant case, there the sort of thing they would take an appeal on and then ask the court of appeals to reassign or have the chief judge reassign a different case to the judge on remand.
certainly of concern of people in the intelligence community. so that s another factor. the article also noted that she gets a little uptight or has a strong reaction sometimes when she s questioned or challenged. and this is a very complicated case, maybe the most important highest profile political case in history or maybe just in a very long time, so all of those factors have certainly raised some concern from legal experts out there, and i expect people will continue to dig into that as we watch this. shan wu, you re one of those legal experts, what are your thoughts? i m less concerned with her inexperience, which is certainly a factor, but that wouldn t lead me to question whether she would be impartial. what leads me to question her impartiality is her prior rulings in that special master case, and that s a concern. i think the department could seek to remove her for lack of impartiality, but i think it also shows us where her head really is in terms of legal
will, always a possibility that she engages in some rulings and has done rulings that are just legally baseless like her decision the special master case, could you appeal up to the 11th circuit and say i m looking at the case law, this is a judge who really needs to recuse herself, absolutely. what i will also say is i really do believe that the assignment he was random, there were a lot of factors that would indicate that she could get this particular assignment, in part because there are number of judges down still, let s go back to our conversation about how important it is for the presence to fill the judicial vacancies. does it make a mockery of the system? if she continues to rule the way she did the special master case, working it was baseless, you didn t see any conservative legal scholars supporting her really and the decision was overturned by the 11th circuit,