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Right-wing Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case, ordered special counsel Jack Smith to turn over information to the defense team that he has repeatedly warned could be used to facilitate witness tampering. And Slate legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern is furious about it, as he made clear on MSNBC Friday evening. “Judge Cannon is in a special, sort of, elite class of hacks appointed by Donald Trump,” said Stern. “I would add, Matthew Kacsmaryk, who recently tried to ban medication abortion nationwide. They are a new breed of Federalis…

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