Someone explain. Who was the judge that signed

[doc03]

the order to search Mara Lardo? If it wasn't Cannon why is
she making orders for a Special Master? How did she get involved in this?

[Nevilledog]

1. Reinhart signed the warrant.

Trump judge shopped to file the civil action with Cannon, whose jurisdiction is far from Mar-a-Lago. That's a huge issue, that Cannon doesn't have jurisdiction, both because of location and the criminal matter in front of Reinhart.

[doc03]

2. This unreal that a criminal can shop for a judge to

to intervein and write an opinion his lawyers dictated to her.

[kelly1mm]

7. Magistrate Reinhart is a Magistrate, not an Article 3 Judge. Magistrates do not have

the authority to appoint Special Masters. There is no 'criminal matter' before Magistrate Reinhart (or anyone else at this point), just a search warrant. Both Magistrate Reinhart and Judge Cannon serve in the Southern District of Florida. That includes MAL.

[Nevilledog]

9. The warrant was still a related case. Trump's lawyers lied about it

Link to tweet

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Something I found odd that the government never raised is that Trump's lawyers outright lied *ON THE CIVIL COVER SHEET* by not listing the Reinhart proceedings as a "related case." https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/1-1.pdf…

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To my read, no, but I skimmed. There's maybe a 1-line address of "a court in the jurisdiction" being able to review these kinds of issues, but nothing about what happens when *another* court is *already* involved.

Did the gov't not raise this issue at all? I don't know.
1:48 PM · Sep 6, 2022

Are you suggesting that Trump didn't judge shop?




https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-went-judge-shopping-and-it-paid-off-in-mar-a-lago-case

Trump Went Judge Shopping and It Paid Off in Mar-a-Lago Case


*snip*

“I note that Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of this District, where only one federal judge sits: Judge Aileen Cannon, who Plaintiff appointed in 2020. Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead. And when Plaintiff is a litigant before a judge that he himself appointed, he does not tend to advance these same sorts of bias concerns,” Middlebrooks wrote in April.

Months later, Trump is once again suing in the Southern District of Florida, this time seeking to hamper the FBI investigation into the way he kept hundreds of classified records at Mar-a-Lago. Except this time, he got Cannon.

The strategy is already paying off.

On Monday afternoon, Cannon single-handedly hit the brakes on the most politically sensitive and consequential FBI investigation ever undertaken. Convinced by Team Trump’s legal arguments that the routine Justice Department methods for carefully handling seized documents aren’t good enough when investigating this particular former president, she ordered that a “special master” be tasked with playing referee to dictate what happens with classified documents that are evidence of a crime.

*snip*

[kelly1mm]

11. Jurisdiction in the federal court system is district based. In this matter it is the Southern

District of Florida. While there are often different 'sub-offices' for practicality purposes the jurisdiction is district wide and not limited to some geographical distance from a sub-office.

Did DJTs lawyers 'judge shop'? Probably.

Again why this was not put before Magistrate Reinhart is because he has no authority to appoint a special master or for that matter hear any subsequent criminal case. Magistrates are very limited in their powers (like generally issuing search warrants). There is no criminal matter at this point at all anyway.

[dem4decades]

3. Only special criminals.

[MichMan]

4. It wasn't a judge, it was a magistrate

[bullimiami]

5. trump went shopping for a friendly judge.

she had no business taking the case, should have directed him to file at the previous court.

[kelly1mm]

8. Both Magistrate Reinhart and Judge Cannon serve in the same Court, the Southern District

of Florida. Magistrate Reinhart, since he is not an Article 3 Judge, has no authority to hear requests for special masters.

[uponit7771]

12. isn't judge shopping illegal or at least unethical for the judge not to recognize this? I'm reminded

... of doctor shopping when it comes to drugs.

At minimum there should be a mechanism to stop the shopping

thx in advance

[rsdsharp]

6. Reinhart is a Magistrate Judge. He is not a Federal District Court Judge.

Magistrate Judges are elected by a majority vote of the sitting District Court Judges. Their principal function is administrative, dealing with search warrants, resolving discovery disputes, etc. They can try cases, if the parties agree.

Magistrate Judges can’t appoint special masters; they are often appointed to serve as special masters. And then Trump forum shopped, hoping, apparently, to get Judge Cannon.

[bluestarone]

10. If true, then maybe Reinhart could be

The special master?

[rsdsharp]

13. No. Both sides will put forward lists of who they want.

Reinhart won’t be on either list. Another magistrate, possibly, but not Reinhart.