The problem is she’s not issuing actual rulings. She keeps asking for arguments from lawyers, telegraphs she’s going to do something stupid, and then just let’s the motion hang undecided, for months. No rulings so nothing to appeal. The fear being she won’t make decisions until the trial is underway and they would essentially be not appealable at that time. Prosecutors/department of justice here are just demanding in legalese that she make some rulings so it would be appealable before the trial and they can have the appeals court shoot her down again like they always do, but ultimately they can’t really force her to do so. I think some of her insane questions and continuing to ask for arguments and not issuing rulings is just general incompetence, at least based on other cases she’s been involved in where she’s making constant very basic mistakes and her extreme inexperience (rated not competent during her nomination by American bar association). But of course all of this has the effect of delays, delays delays, even more than the Trump lawyers themselves were hoping to delay it. And by the time she finally makes some (dumb easily overturnable) decisions on these things, and Jack Smith appeals them, well there’s another delay waiting for the appeal, and then even more delay if they raise enough questions to have a new judge appointed. I think a lot of these dumb questions she’s asking and entertaining from lawyers is because she legitimately doesn’t understand the laws at play here and is having the lawyers explain it to her.

While she seems quite incompetent at her job, it certainly seems like she must be doing this deliberately at least to some degree too. It’s just getting harder and harder to see this actually getting done by the time of the election, thanks to this judge’s hard work to provide cover for Trump’s criminal activities. She also provided a lot of delays before the trial proceedings with the initial investigation and the whole stupid search warrant challenge case before the appeals court told her stop this bullshit with no basis in law and dismissed the whole case out of hand. I think any objective observer looking at this situation would come to the conclusion that Judge Cannon is only interested in helping Trump politically however possible and couldn’t give two shits about the law.