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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge Cannon is milking her decision?
This should be a cut and dry hearing, yet she is playing patty cake for Trump?
underpants
(182,582 posts)drray23
(7,615 posts)so the DOJ can proceed until further notice. It's not win for Trump.
llashram
(6,265 posts)she is delusional if she now thinks she can save trump by delaying the inevitable...
agingdem
(7,804 posts)Judge C'mon Aileen..a Trump enabler..I'm shocked!!!
Ocelot II
(115,571 posts)Federal judges have lifetime appointments for exactly that reason. I have pointed out many times that none of the judges he appointed ruled in his favor in any of the 60+ election cases. Judges regularly issue decisions against the interests of the president who appointed them - in U.S. v. Nixon, for example, three of Nixon's Supreme Court appointees voted to release the "smoking gun" tape, knowing full well that it would end Nixon's presidency.
spanone
(135,777 posts)brooklynite
(94,294 posts)elleng
(130,702 posts)OTHERS, however, say: Judge to issue written ruling, not ruling from the bench orally. If Judge did not order DOJ to stop any review, that is a very good sign for DOJ.
imanamerican63
(13,723 posts)elleng
(130,702 posts)'Judge to issue written ruling, not ruling from the bench orally. If Judge did not order DOJ to stop any review, that is a very good sign for DOJ.' ?
imanamerican63
(13,723 posts)Should have quashed this in the beginning. Your points are spot on. It should not reach this point.
Ocelot II
(115,571 posts)The mere fact that she is a Trump appointee does not mean she will rule in his favor. I have pointed out in other posts that none of his appointed judges have ruled in his favor in the more than 60 election cases he or his supporters filed. I swear to God, there is as much knee-jerking happening on DU as anywhere else, and I had hoped we had better analytical skills. The fact that she is issuing a written order indicates that she has listened to the arguments and will consider the facts and the law, as she should. If she was just Trump's puppet she probably would have ordered the appointment of a special master from the bench, but she didn't.
skip fox
(19,356 posts)but "we've been there," as they say, so many times before.
Ocelot II
(115,571 posts)skip fox
(19,356 posts)against the system, including several parties. Maybe not the DOJ (although Barr's report of Mueller's work was a travesty), but so many others.
The fact we expect the worst is pretty natural.
Demsrule86
(68,454 posts)indicates she may be a Trumper first and a judge second.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)backing up whatever it is she decides to do.
elleng
(130,702 posts)have to rule on a related request by Mr. Trumps lawyers, who have asked her to freeze the governments review of the seized materials while the master works. But the Justice Department has said that it already completed its review and set aside a trove of documents that it believes could be protected by attorney-client privilege.
The hearing will be the first time that lawyers for Mr. Trump will appear in court for a proceeding related to the Mar-a-Lago search. His legal team chose to remain on the sidelines last month, when lawyers for several news organizations sought to unseal the affidavit used to obtain the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago, a move that the Justice Department opposed.
While the hearing will be nominally focused on the special master question, it is possible that prosecutors and Mr. Trumps lawyers will offer Judge Cannon their broader opinions on the F.B.I.s search.
In court papers filed on Wednesday night, Mr. Trumps lawyers called the search unprecedented, unnecessary and legally unsupported.
In papers filed on Tuesday, prosecutors revealed a striking evidence photograph of folders labeled secret and top secret arrayed on the floor of Mar-a-Lago and also set forth a detailed timeline of how Mr. Trump and his lawyers repeatedly sought to stymie the governments attempts to retrieve the materials.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/politics/trump-special-master-hearing-explained.html
skip fox
(19,356 posts)Wonder why I think that way with all-things-Trump?
obamanut2012
(26,041 posts)Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)???
He'd have to be the sitting president for that. Which he is not. And "presidential immunity" is for CIVIL cases. Which this one is not.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Remember all the way back to [checks notes] Saturday? That's when Judge Cannon issued her preliminary order giving notice of her intent to appoint a special master as the former guy's hapless attorneys had requested.
It's a bit unusual (to say the least) for a judge to say something like that before the opposing party has had a chance to weigh in on the other side. The government lawyers didn't flub their opportunity, and their opposing brief came complete with teeth to bite the hiney off of the former guy's specious argument. And so Judge Cannon finds herself in a bit of a fix of her own making because of Saturday's order.
I don't offer judges advice very often, but next time try waiting until an issue is fully briefed before making a public statement about how you're thinking of ruling. I mean, come on, Aileen.
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)Oh I swear Aileen,...
dalton99a
(81,382 posts)https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fbi-search-outside-expert-e732ef9ea773f4d4eaf49069b8cec325