Of course, Judge Aileen Cannon is receiving no monetary payment from her buggering the law. Does showing gratitude to her creator give her, perhaps, a warm feeling inside. Or does she think that because she shelters Trump she will get a high position in the judiciary of the new fascist regime? 

Or, as seems more likely, she has no clear motive, but simply does not know what she’s doing, a situation foreseen by the American Bar Association and others who opposed her appointment.