Special master ruling shows Trump’s takeover of courts has started to sting

Aileen Cannon, who Trump nominated in 2020, granted his wish over the Mar-a-Lago search - a maverick decision that is the thin end of the wedge

In the first televised presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2020, the sitting president was asked why voters should re-elect him to the White House. He gave a relatively obscure answer - it was all about the judges, he said.

By the end of his first term in office, Trump bragged, he would have smashed all records for the number of his appointments to the federal bench. I'll have approximately 300 federal judges."