Neither person identified the second federal judge in Florida who had contacted Judge Cannon. One of the people confirmed the effort to persuade Judge Cannon to side with her, but did not describe the details of the conversations the two judges had with her. The other person provided more details.
This person said that every broadcast was done by phone. The first judge who called Judge Cannon, this person said, suggested the case would be better handled by a lawyer based closer to the district's busiest court in Miami, where the big jury that indicted Mr. Trump. .
The Miami court also had a secure facility approved to hold the type of highly classified information that would be discussed in pretrial motions and used as evidence in the case. Judge Cannon is the sole judge of the federal court in Fort Pierce, a two-hour drive north of Miami. When she was assigned to the case, the Fort Pierce courthouse did not have a secure facility.
Because Judge Cannon upheld the case, taxpayers have had to pay to build a safe room there, known as a sensitive compartmentalized information facility, or SCIF.
After that initial discussion didn't get Judge Cannon to recuse himself, the person said, Judge Altonaga made a call.
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