On Friday, District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a new order in the Donald Trump classified documents case adding to the mountain of evidence that she is firmly in the former president’s pocket. Trump appointed Cannon in 2020 and the Senate confirmed her appointment in the days after he lost the 2020 election. It’s deeply offensive to the rule of law for judges to bend the law to benefit those who put them on the bench. Sadly, Cannon does just that.
Cannon’s new ruling rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s entirely standard request that she order Trump to state whether he intends to rely on an “advice of counsel” defense ahead of the trial, currently scheduled for May 20. Advance notice of the defense helps expedite a trial because defendants asserting it need to provide additional discovery to prosecutors—raising the defense means that defendants must disclose all communications with their attorneys, as the defense waives the attorney–client privilege.
Judge Cannon’s brief order asserted that Smith’s motion was “not amenable to proper consideration at this juncture, prior to at least partial resolution of pretrial motions” and further discovery.
Sound innocuous? It’s anything but. Instead, it’s part of a pattern we’ve already seen of Cannon laying the groundwork for delaying Trump’s trial—until it’s too late for a jury to be empaneled and the case tried to verdict before the election.
must be nice getting to appoint the judge directly involving your criminal case
what a cunt.
Why is she being allowed to get away with this? Didn’t she already get reprimanded?
She was also separately the judge in an earlier lawsuit that Trump filed trying to stop the government from examining what it obtained with the search warrant, for reasons that made no sense and they couldn’t really articulate. The Trump filings were essentially legal nonsense, so this judge took it upon herself to try to weave together something else for them, that still didn’t make any sense. She was faffing about with appointing a time consuming special master (not at all appropriate for that situation) and trying to find ways to prevent the government from examining the evidence. Jack Smith played along with her but at the same time appealed the legality of any of this to the eleventh circuit (actually pretty conservative circuit too). When they finally got the case they said this is all legal nonsense, you never should have even taken up this complaint, accused them of just doing all this only because he was a former president. It was a pretty crazy opinion to read, they were not happy with her. Case was dismissed and the government was finally able to examine all the evidence they had seized with the search warrant. Whole charade delayed the investigation by at least 6 months.
And then when the government finally file charges after the investigation is complete, she gets pulled, again, to be the judge in this case (randomly apparently but from a very small potential pool). Ugh. So that’s why we have her again. It’s been reported Jack Smith has contemplated filing for her removal from the case. It’s a tall order though and would also delay things. Potentially could be trying to gather even more evidence for bias before trying to make such a play, or could be trying to see if there’s any way he could still get it through in a timely manner while she plays interference for Trump. Either way it’s infuriating, as she’s tying up probably the most solid criminal case against him, probably trying to delay it past the election.
Judges really don’t like to discipline other judges in any way. Because they know how presidents are set.
Precedents.
But your typo still kinda works…
Particularly in Florida.
In 2000.
Typo, or clever wordplay?
Don’t you already know the answer to this though? 😢
Search your feelings.
It’s so sickening that a teabagger like this, being the Fifth Column which is against our Constitution, against freedom, and against America, can have a job within our government even now.
Makes me wish I devoted my life to being a scumbag. Would have guaranteed a high level position in trumps government. Darn shame I feel emotions, really.
My physical demeanor will change dramatically towards the powerful, wealthy, and forceful if Trump wins another term. I was very ragged through that entire term. And I will be much worse in dealing with it again.
But I refuse to abandon the US to Trump and his toadies and run off to another country.
There will be plenty to take care of here.
Remember to take shooting lessons so you’re ready.
Ah yes, the idea that your pea shooter can deal with tanks and drones flown from under a mountain in Colorado. Nah, you’ll get blown up, they won’t find enough parts to identify you, and the world will turn onward.
Why are you waging a conventional war? Resistance doesn’t fight in the open.
Ah yes, the dumbass idea that the U.S. is able to take out insurgents the way it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, parroted robotically by some bootlicker any time anyone even so much as whispers the obvious solution to our problems
Fuck off, sycophant
I don’t own firearms. And I don’t appreciate shitheels implying that I do.
Not everyone with an agenda fills it with killing people to make the sex hot at home.
Because that is the pig game: they figured out how hot the sex is after beating someone or a kill.
And that is what they can’t give up. Their ultimate VIAGRA : Kill and fuck.
Addicted to killing and fucking is what a badge is all about.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-trainer-best-sex-killing/
You’re right.
If the fascists take over, it’s better to quietly sit on the sidelines and hope you’re not one of the targeted undesirables.
First they came for the trans people, and I did not act—
Because I was not trans.Then they came for the gay people , and I did not act—
Because I was not gay.Then they came for the immigrants, and I did not act—
Because I was not an immigrant.Then they came for the women, and I did not space—
Because I was not a woman.Then they came for the ”woke”, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not ”woke”.Then they came for me—and there was no one left to act for me.
Thanks for the copy pasta everyone has seen 20 times a month since 2016
Gee wonder why it’s popping up so often?
Lack of creativity and algo-chasing.
LOL people actually downvoted you for saying that you don’t have or like guns.
I was actually about to upvote for that first paragraph, but downvoted because of the rest.
And hey, I mean, ACAB, I’m not defending cops. Cops are selected for stupidity and aggression, trained to murder, and held above the law. Even the best of them are still part of a system that is oppressive by design.
But what that trainer was saying was true, and an important thing to acknowledge for anybody who is likely to be in life-and-death situations - firefighters, paramedics, even social workers. Go to the Snopes link he included and read the whole thing.
Sex is a normal reaction to danger. It doesn’t mean that cops are going out and killing people just to have better sex, that’s stupid. They’re killing people, yes, for lots of reasons, but that’s not one of them. It’s almost as dumb as the QAnon quacks talking about adrenochrome.
Americans are blood thirsty, genocidal monsters. What did you expect? Lmaoooooooooo
My only hope for a Trump second term is a true unifing force for the politically unaffiliated.
Just trying to string it out till the election, then he can pardon himself if he wins or start a civil war if he loses.
He’s going to do both.
Seems like it’s more of “Jack Smith wants to get this trial going” vs. “Cannon maybe wants to back door delay it a little while.”
In any case, I don’t think Smith is going to win his fight for a speedy trial. There are just too many was to dilly dally.
It sounds absolutely batshit insane that judges can take sides and not be impartial when it comes to politics in the US.
Someone wants to be on the Supreme Court…too bad Trump doesn’t really reward loyalty.
Quietly?
Quiet is relative. She’s not frothing at the mouth yet, so she’s not quite as loud as most Trump-Slurpers.
Ehh, I got that reference.
You’d be surprised how many lawyers & judges are republicans
I really don’t think I’d be very surprised at this point
I misread and thought that a Camera company was going against Trump.
Apparently just a coincidence that’s she hasn’t received any death threats. /s
“not amenable to proper consideration at this juncture, prior to at least partial resolution of pretrial motions” and further discovery.
Sound innocuous? It’s anything but.
maybe, maybe not. we don’t know why she’s considering her pretrial motions in such an order, but it’s not necessarily evidence of malfeasance, nor of anything else. she didn’t decline to consider the motion nor deny the motion outright-- nor at all; she just said, basically, “not right now, we need to do a few other things first.” this isn’t exactly unusual.
Nah, Jack Smith had been trying to get procedural hearings about handling classified documents from the jump and Canon had dismissed them like four times.
i don’t doubti agree that that was some obvious bullshit.*edited for clarity
So obvious (and repeated) bullshit surely is evidence of malfeasance, right?
You’ll admit that now? Right?
I don’t think that this is the same thing. Just because all German shepherds are dogs doesn’t mean that all dogs are German shepherds.
Yea totally, I get it. Just because the neighbor is a serial rapist and pedophile doesn’t mean they’ll assault MY kids when I ask them to babysit.
Makes perfect sense.
Also not all German shepherds are dogs BTW. There are shepherds that live in Germany that are quite human.
If it walks like a duck, quacks likes a duck, and looks like a duck, maybe it’s pretty safe to make an assumption.
