Aileen Cannon declines to step aside from Trump suspect case

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will not be recusing herself from overseeing the case involving a man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his golf club in September.

In a motion filed on Tuesday, Cannon dismissed assertions that she has any “relationship” with the former president. The judge, who was appointed by Trump in 2020, has been accused of being partial to him, such as this summer when she dismissed the federal charges against Trump in connection with his handling of classified documents after he left the White House.

“I have no control over what private citizens, members of the media, or public officials or candidates elect to say about me or my judicial rulings,” Cannon wrote Tuesday. “Nor am I concerned about the political consequences of my rulings or how those rulings might be viewed by ‘some in the media.'”

The defendant in Trump’s assassination case, Ryan Wesley Routh, had filed for Cannon to remove herself from his case.

This is a developing story that will be updated as information becomes available.