With some of her conduct amid the high-profile federal criminal case against former President Donald Trump that accuses him of the mishandling of government classified documents, Judge Aileen Cannon seemed like she was auditioning for “higher office,” said a former federal judge on CNN this week.

Cannon just recently worked through days of proceedings in court on various pending arguments, though there is still no trial date in the case. She has faced criticism for, as the argument goes, providing inappropriately broad leeway to arguments that warranted being set aside. And for Trump, dragging out the proceedings and potentially pushing trial beyond the election could, in effect, help him out significantly if he wins the election and whatever’s left goes on ice.

“But one of the first things that you learn in baby judge school, and yes, that’s what it’s called, is case management, and that is set a trial date, and she has not set a trial date,” said former federal judge Nancy Gertner, later adding: “There’s a motion to dismiss on the grounds of presidential immunity. Well, these acts took place after he was president. So, there are issues out there which [she] has not resolved which should have been easily resolved. And yesterday’s hearing felt like an audition for Judge Cannon to seek higher office, inviting essentially the right legal scholars to challenge the special counsel when those challenges have failed over and over again for years and years and years.”

Cannon was originally nominated for the federal judiciary by Trump himself when he was president, and she had a critical role much earlier in this matter, setting up an additional level of review for documents taken from Trump’s property Mar-a-Lago in a judicially authorized search. It was criticized as unnecessary and eventually ended by another court before its originally set conclusion.