NYTimes reports that the clerk of the southern district of Florida said that the assignment was random and that Cannon will continue to be in charge of the case unless she recuses herself.
A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/us/politics/trump-documents-judge-aileen-cannon.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Judge Cannon, 42, a Trump appointee in Florida, shocked legal experts across ideological lines last year by intervening in the investigation and issuing rulings favorable to Mr. Trump, only to be rebuked by a conservative appeals court.
The chief clerk of court for the Southern District of Florida has said that new cases there are randomly delegated to its judges even if they are related to previous ones. It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Trump lucked out, or if an exception was made. Either way, legal specialists said Judge Cannon’s return was significant.