I agree with you on all points, except judge shopping in this case. The case was filed by prosecutors, not the defense. Defendants can’t really judge shop a criminal case (beyond choosing to live in Florida I suppose, or the fact that Trump appointed hundreds of judges himself). She was technically selected by random chance out of that district’s pool, though because of various factors the pool being picked from was pretty small, so there was a high chance of getting her. More details here if interested:
Hence how she ended up with both Trump’s stupid fight against the search warrant as well as the actual criminal case. So there wasn’t judge shopping of the traditional sense, like patent cases always going to that particular district in Texas that tends to rule favorably for patent holders.
I agree with you on all points, except judge shopping in this case. The case was filed by prosecutors, not the defense. Defendants can’t really judge shop a criminal case (beyond choosing to live in Florida I suppose, or the fact that Trump appointed hundreds of judges himself). She was technically selected by random chance out of that district’s pool, though because of various factors the pool being picked from was pretty small, so there was a high chance of getting her. More details here if interested:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/politics/judge-aileen-cannon-trump-documents.html
Hence how she ended up with both Trump’s stupid fight against the search warrant as well as the actual criminal case. So there wasn’t judge shopping of the traditional sense, like patent cases always going to that particular district in Texas that tends to rule favorably for patent holders.
Yeah, fair point.
Fair point from the kind of people who don’t wonder how one Texas statistician with links to the lottery commission won four jackpots