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Judge Aileen Cannon has been a frequent source of frustration to special counsel Jack Smith, repeatedly delaying former President Donald Trump’s trial in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Trump is now arguing that Smith should be sanctioned for openly criticizing Cannon’s handling of the case. But during a Thursday, April 4 appearance on CNN, legal analyst Norm Eisen laid out some reasons why he believes that Smith — not Cannon — “is in the right here.” Eisen told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “The judge has made an inexplicable and troubling legal hypothesis that she asked Jack Smith to respond to, saying…