Cannon reminds Trump to redact witness names as former president faces gag hearing in different venue

Background: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a news conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., Friday, April 12, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)/ Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020, in Washington. (U.S. Senate via AP)

Background: Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a news conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., Friday, April 12, 2024, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)/ Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020, in Washington. (U.S. Senate via AP)

Judge Aileen Cannon apparently got tired of non-parties trying to intervene on issues in the Mar-a-Lago case, as she sent 24 Republican attorneys general and their proposed brief in support of Donald Trump packing on Monday.

In a paperless order, the day after the AGs sought her leave to file a brief, the judge got right to the point without immediately elaborating on the why of the rejection:

PAPERLESS ORDER denying 623 Motion for Leave to File Brief as Amicus Curiae in Opposition to Special Counsel’s Motion to Modify Conditions of Release 592. Signed by Judge Aileen M. Cannon on 6/17/2024. (jf01) (Entered: 06/17/2024)

As Law&Crime reported earlier in the day, Alabama AG Steve Marshall, Alaska AG Treg Taylor, Arkansas AG Tim Griffin, Florida AG Ashley Moody, Idaho AG Raul Labrador, Iowa AG Brenna Bird, Indiana AG Todd Rokita, Kansas AG Kris Kobach, Kentucky AG Russell Coleman, Louisiana AG Liz Murrill, Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, Montana AG Austin Knudsen, Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers, North Dakota AG Drew Wrigley, Ohio AG Dave Yost, Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond, South Carolina AG Alan Wilson, South Dakota AG Marty Jackley, Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti, Texas AG Ken Paxton, Utah AG Sean Reyes, West Virginia AG Patrick Morrissey, and Wyoming AG Bridget Hill all combined in an attempt to make the case that Smith’s gag order request runs afoul of the First Amendment as “presumptively unconstitutional.”

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