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Schultz said he would expect a routine federal case to take a couple of years from the time of the first hearing to its completion, and the Routh case is “moving much more rapidly than that.”

Schultz added that Cannon’s accelerated pace in the Routh prosecution could also be indicative of her learning curve.

“I still think there is this, at the very least, appearance problem, just in terms of how she handled that case versus this one,” Schultz said.

By contrast, in the Routh case, “she’s proceeding the way you would normally expect a district court judge to proceed on criminal matters, except it seems to be even more accelerated,” Schultz said in a phone interview, noting that federal judges have notoriously heavy dockets.

“We are getting back to the basics of managing our national forests for their intended purposes of producing timber, clean water, recreation, and other necessities for the American taxpayers,” agency head Tom Schultz said in a statement ahead of a budget review hearing with the U.S.