Crash Course: “The more we learn, the worse things look”: Court error exposes judge's "obvious" Trump sympathy

Judge Aileen Cannon's descriptions of potentially privileged documents are in stark contrast with the actual docs [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRlIovHP0Q2aHR0cHM6Ly9yZWFkLmxldHRlcmhlYWQuZW1haWwvY3Jhc2gtY291cnNlL2xldHRlci81Mzc3VwNzcGNCCmM8ygZAY5Y5f0FSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRlIovHP0QWaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tL1cDc3BjQgpjPMoGQGOWOX9BUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). (Emily Elconin/Getty Images) “The more we learn, the worse things look”: Court error exposes judge's "obvious" Trump sympathy A [court docketing error](~/AASU4wA~/RgRlIovHP0R7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2Fsb24uY29tLzIwMjIvMTAvMDUvbWFyLWEtbGFnby1kb2N1bWVudHMtaW5hZHZlcnRlbnRseS1wdWJsaXNoZWQtb25saW5lLS1hbmQtdW5kZXJjdXQtdHJ1bXBzLXByaXZpbGVnZS1jbGFpbXMvVwNzcGNCCmM8ygZAY5Y5f0FSG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjg1QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAKA~~) on Tuesday briefly exposed documents in the Mar-a-Lago probe that were supposed to be sealed — and revealed a stark difference between U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's description of documents and the actual documents she described. 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