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— a then-39-year-old junior prosecutor with a resumé that could be charitably called flimsy — appeared before U.S. senators for her summer 2020 confirmation hearing to become a federal district court judge, she also had very little experience giving interviews.that Cannon — a Colombia native whose family later escaped Fidel Castro’s Cuba for Florida — filled out for the Senate Judiciary after she was recommended for the lifetime appointment by Sen. Marco Rubio and nominated by Donald Trump.
” — in which the couple described how the groom’s wedding proposal during a vacation in Greece had been interrupted by a turtle.by GOP defector and Stand for Democracy founder Peter Vroom, who also noted that “she had never made any speeches, produced any reports, participated in any panel discussions, spoke at any conferences or written for any bar association.
Yet Cannon had two huge things going for her in the eyes of Trump, Rubio, and the right-wing project to remake the federal judiciary: She was a product of their conservative grooming project, the Federalist Society, and her relative youth meant she might sit on the bench for decades. She was one of several judicial nomineesthe Senate on Nov. 12, 2020 — five days after TV networks called the election for President Biden, signaling that the right-wing judicial pipeline was about to get shut down.
Trump seems to have remembered Cannon when he moved to Florida two months later — a private citizen after his failed coup.his bizarre “Russiagate” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and a former FBI agent in Fort Pierce, Fla. — when Cannon was the only district judge — in the apparent hope she would oversee the case. (She didn’t, and the judge who got it instead threw the suit out as “
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