The insistence by the Department of Justice that Judge Aileen Cannon not recuse herself from presiding over the trial of one of President Trump’s would-be assassins, Ryan Routh, stands in stunning contrast to the conflict over Judge Cannon’s handling of the Mar-a-Lago case against the 45th president. Mr. Routh warns that Trump could name Judge Cannon to the Supreme Court.

Mr. Routh is charged with five crimes, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, after lying in ambush in the bushes — with a gun — at the Trump International Golf Course. The government argues that he was at West Palm Beach “for one reason and one reason only and that was to kill the former President of the United States.”