As Trump's Inquisitors Face Scrutiny, a Divisive Figure Could Play a New Role.
by Charlie Savage
'The prosecutor running an inquiry into those who investigated President Trump has established a grand jury under Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whose scuttling of the documents case made her a White House favorite.
The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated President Trump, has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Fla. The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen M. Cannon.
That raises a question with intriguing political and legal overtones. Could Judge Cannon again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case, this one centered not on accusations of wrongdoing by him but on whether the Russia investigation and the charges against him after he left office in 2021 amount to a conspiracy against him?
Judge Cannon, whom Mr. Trump nominated in the final year of his first term, handled the case involving his retention of classified documents while out of office. She temporarily disrupted the inquiry after the F.B.I. in 2022 searched Mr. Trump’s club and residence, Mar-a-Lago, before an appeals court reversed her decision. In July 2024, she dismissed his indictment on procedural grounds, a decision that flew in the face of previous court decisions.
The U.S. attorney, Jason A. Reding Quiñones, a Trump loyalist, has already been using a grand jury in Miami to subpoena former officials involved in an intelligence assessment that concluded Russia was trying to help Mr. Trump win the 2016 election. He has not said why he is putting an extra grand jury 130 miles away in Judge Cannon’s courthouse.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/by/charlie-savage
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/us/politics/trump-florida-cannon-grand-jury.html