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The judge assigned to oversee Trump's criminal case was appointed by Trump himself

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Read NPR’s live blog for the latest on the Trump indictment.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has been assigned, at least for now, to oversee the case stemming from Donald Trump’s indictment, a source confirmed to NPR on Friday.
Trump appointed Cannon to the bench in 2020, and she is the same judge who ruled in favor of Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from Mar-a-Lago last summer, a move that temporarily stopped federal prosecutors from continuing their investigation into the documents.

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