“Judge Aileen #Cannon is again ripping up the court schedule in #Trump’s classified #documents case – pushing some of the legal questions that have been before her for months even further down the road.” #legal
@GottaLaff The incoherent scheduling and delay aren’t even the most shocking aspects of Cannon’s latest decisions. Her ruling that people like Ed Meese and Michael Mukasey can participate in oral arguments over Jack Smith’s appointment as special prosecutor is outrageous. This gives people with no standing in the case a platform to air their views. #LawFedi
JUST IN: Judge #Cannon in the MAL classified #documents case enters a paperless Order directing #Trump to file a Response to Special Counsel #JackSmith’s Motion to Modify Bond Conditions on or before June 14. A Reply, if any, from Smith will be due on or before June 21st.
Clearly, Judge Cannon doesn’t seem to be worried about the safety of the law enforcement officers that have targets on their backs courtesy of Donald Trump’s spreading of lies about the MAL search warrant.
@GottaLaff hope you're feeling some better. I'm growing a bunch of herbs for those crappy days in life when I just don't feel good. They're also pretty little pollinators.
@GottaLaff, there's a good article in this morning's The Guardian about how the Right has a weird "mirror" reality (I'd say a DISTORTED mirror) in which they truly believe that Biden is an autocrat and is using the DOJ to get his enemies. I also think Cannon, Alito, and Thomas believe in this "mirror" reality and that's why this stuff keeps happening.
I have NO IDEA how we can fix it.
Judge #Cannon is giving #Trump's legal team and the government 12 days to tell her how the SCOTUS decision upholding the CFPB's funding/appointment impacts Trump's claim that #JackSmith was unlawfully appointed and funded...
I think the interest is in comparing the CFPB's funding mechanism with the special counsel's. CFPB is funded directly by the federal reserve rather than appropriations; this mostly prevents congress from using it as a political football. Similarly, the special counsel is funded independently of appropriations. Once again cannon is exceeding her brief chasing down issues that do not exist and is auditioning for appointment to higher court, smiling at each month ticking by.
JUST IN: Judge #CANNON has denied #JackSmith's gag order request in FL, saying prosecutors' failure to confer with defense before filing it was "wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy." #TrumpIndictment#documents#legal
Fed prosecutors asked judge overseeing #documents case against #Trump to bar TFG from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, & foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution.
The request to Judge Cannon follows false claim by Trump that FBI agents who searched his home in Aug 2022 were “authorized to shoot me” & “locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger” #legal https://apnews.com/article/d52b7468d93712dd86cbb8fe304d4b64
Terms already say not to do anything to endanger others. So Smith is politely requesting she enforce her own terms, not do anything new. Declining to do so will be even more egregious than not issuing gag order. Then straight to 11th with "not doing her job" rather than ""denied my motion." @kbsez
Special counsel #JackSmith appears to have suspected additional efforts by #Trump to obstruct the government's investigation of his handling of classified #documents, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday. #legal#TrumpIndictment
Perhaps there's some overarching legal concept at work here, but I don't see why the DOJ isn't pursuing more documents charges against Trump outside of Cannon's venue. Bedminster was the site where he disclosed the Iranian contingency plans, was it not?
@skykiss As USAF Vietnam era veteran who had top secret clearance i(nuclear weapons test ban treaty monitoring program), I agree. Trump should not even be a candidate. We don't want president who sells classified documents to foreign governments, who incited and supported insurrection, who tried to steal an election, who would sell presidential power to corporations for money. That said, I stand by my view Trump won't make election day without mental or physical breakdown.
As Trump’s classified docs prosecution goes forward, now w no pretense of trial before the election, Judge #Cannon appears poised to permit him to use pub hearings in the case to sound his campaign themes. 1/… #legal
13/ [Parloff had citations throughout that I’m not including]:
We had a starker example back in Nov 2023. Trump asked Cannon to put off the SDFla trial because of the DC trial date, while failing to tell her that, later that same evening, he was filing a motion in DC to stay the DC case entirely. Govt brought it to her attn.
In response, Cannon not only ignored defense's sharp practice, but warned govt that she wd strike its future notices if it failed to comply w a purported 200-word limit imposed by Local Rules. The govt’s notice had used 217 words.
@GottaLaff Judge Cannon's move today is infuriating, but completely expected.
Now it's Smith's turn to start taking the fight to her. Here's a helpful explainer on how he can ask to have her replaced; the difficulty (but not impossibility!) he'll face in doing so; and why, in light of the Constitution's double jeopardy clause, it's absolutely vital that he move to DQ her now: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-it-would-look-like-to-remove-judge-cannon
NEW: Judge #Cannon enters an Order “temporarily staying” the requirement for #Trump to have to file his CIPA Section 5 notice in the MAL classified #documents case.
Sec. 5 requires Trump to disclose to the Government the classified materials he intends on using at trial. #trial
@GottaLaff
... And then I say to myself, if she succeeds in delaying the trial till after the election, and Donald wins, she would be first in line to head to the Supreme Court at the first opportunity.
Smh smh smh
A #Trump associate told the FBI of advising Trump to return classified #documents to the National Archives nearly a year before agents searched Mar-a-Lago.
@GottaLaff
But will the DOJ case in Florida ever come to trial with the biased and unqualified Judge Cannon doing everything she can to derail it ? @bkahn @SherBeareth
Wild stuff in unsealed (heavily redacted) FBI intrvw from high-level #Trump-wrld person related to #documents investig
Ex: witness afraid to have interview recorded..fear of reprisal...appears 2 b..attempt to leverage Trump fam mmbers to push him to return classif docs
Won't take long to crowdsource IDs of many redacted from these docs. Prty easy to decipher # of them to high degree of cert which spks to why #JackSmith wanted more signif redactions/sealing https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.470.4.pdf