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WASHINGTON — The U.S. attorney in Miami, who is running a sprawling investigation into former officials who investigated President Donald Trump, has been granted an unusual request to convene an extra grand jury at the federal courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida. The location ensures that just one judge can oversee it: Aileen Cannon.

That raises a question with intriguing political and legal overtones. Could Cannon again end up as a key player in a Trump-centric case, this one centered not on accusations of wrongdoing by him but on whether the Russia investigation and the charges against him after he left office in 2021 amount to a conspiracy against him?

Cannon, whom Trump nominated in the final year of his first term, handled the case involv

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