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Jan 2025
52m 20s

Bill Kristol: Cannons All the Way Down

THE BULWARK
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Trump's favorite judge, Aileen Cannon, has been attempting to exercise authority she doesn't have over Jack Smith's required report on his investigations of the Jan 6 case and the hoarding of classified docs—but she'll be a model of loyalty that Trump will expect for all his judicial appointments. 
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