Experts: Cannon issued "first court decision of Project 2025" -- but it may be "blessing in disguise"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "It's more useful and illuminating to think of the dismissal as the first court decision of Project 2025, in which the rule of law takes an unabashed back seat to the preeminent principle of loyalty to Trump," Litman wrote, referring to the Heritage Foundation's far-right plan for a second Trump administration.
40% : Yesterday, though, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, appointed by Trump in 2020, ruled the opposite: that the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith, who filed charges against the former president for hoarding state secrets at Mar-a-Lago, was a clear and direct violation of the country's founding document -- indeed, a "substantial separation-of-powers violation."
23% : But while Cannon cited a recent opinion issued by conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, many legal experts accused her of ignoring decades of legal precedent to dismiss a case that she was accused of intentionally delaying for more than a year, ensuring that Trump would never stand trial in a case widely considered the strongest against him.

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