{"id":137518,"date":"2024-10-25T13:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137518"},"modified":"2024-10-25T13:05:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:05:24","slug":"judge-aileen-cannon-who-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-on-list-of-proposed-candidates-for-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137518","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed Trump&#8217;s classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for attorney general&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/judge-tossed-trumps-classified-docs-case-list-proposed\/story?id=114997807\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC<\/a>: &#8220;A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/timeline-special-counsels-investigation-trumps-handling-classified-documents\/story?id=101768329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">classified documents case<\/a>, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Cannon&#8217;s name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled &#8220;Transition Planning: Legal Principals,&#8221; which lists potential staffing for the White House counsel&#8217;s office, the Department of Justice, the FBI, and U.S. attorneys&#8217; offices, as well as proposed candidates for the top legal positions within multiple government agencies, should Trump be reelected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The document was drafted by Trump&#8217;s top advisers with input from Boris Epshteyn, who oversees Trump&#8217;s legal team and is one of Trump&#8217;s most trusted advisers, sources familiar with the matter said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC: &#8220;A proposed personnel roster circulating within Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge who threw out Trump&#8217;s&nbsp;classified documents case, as a possible candidate for attorney general, multiple sources familiar with the matter have told ABC News. Cannon&#8217;s name appears on a document reviewed by ABC News titled &#8220;Transition Planning:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137519,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137518\/revisions\/137519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}