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Judge Aileen Cannon’s rulings have baffled and confounded many legal experts over the last year, and at least one retired judge thinks it’s time for special counsel Jack Smith to get her booted from the Mar-a-Lago documents case. In an interview with Politico, retired federal judge Nancy Gertner made the case that Cannon has already done more than enough to disqualify herself from overseeing such an important case. “It’s clear that she is going in a ridiculous direction,” she said, referring in part to jury instructions floated by Cannon that would ask jurors to consider whether top-secret gov…

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