Legal Legend Laurence Tribe and Celebrity Lawyer George Conway Escalate Effort To Remove Judge From Jack Smith’s Prosecution of Trump

High-profile lawyers are joining an effort to persuade the 11th Circuit to remove Judge Cannon from the Mar-a-Lago case and reassign it to another jurist.

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Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on August 1, 2023 at Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A new brief from a roster of blue chip lawyers arguing that Judge Aileen Cannon ought to be reversed and removed in her Mar-a-Lago case against President Trump brings into focus the growing push — an “Avengers” style effort — to oust the Florida jurist and clear the path to a conviction of the 45th president.

The filing, a so-called amicus or “friend of the court” brief, is the second in short order to hit the docket of the 11th United States Appeals Circuit and make the case that Judge Cannon erred so badly as to merit reassignment. The first was written by a liberal legal group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or “CREW.”

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