Chris

I’m struggling to understand the timing around this though. Cannon has until now been careful not to give Smith anything to appeal. It has seemed as if she was very keen to drag the thing out and limit its scope as much as she could but not actually risk losing control of the proceedings. Why suddenly so careless? The timing, right after Saturday’s events, is highly suspicious. Does she think that Smith won’t appeal it under these circumstances? Or that the Federal appeals court will be less sympathetic to Smith if he does? On the other hand, I’m reading that she has not dismissed with prejudice, which allows the case to be restarted, and because in any case it had yet to come to trial Trump doesn’t have an acquittal so re-starting it woudn’t be double jeopardy. Is she perhaps suddenly wanting to distance herself from anything to do with Donald J Trump?