Judge Aileen M. Cannon, who tossed out the classified documents criminal case against Donald Trump in July, failed to disclose her attendance at a May 2023 banquet funded by a conservative law school, despite a rule requiring her to do so. This is not the first time Cannon has failed to fully disclose attending such an event as required. In 2021 and 2022, she took weeklong trips to the luxurious Sage Lodge in Pray, Montana, for legal colloquiums sponsored by George Mason University. Cannon did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
“Judges administer the law, and we have a right to expect every judge to comply with the law,” said Virginia Canter, chief ethics counsel for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. (This month, we reported that CREW filed a brief arguing that Cannon had shown bias in handling criminal charges against Trump and should be removed from the case.)
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