Josh Marshall on the appeal

[BootinUp]

Josh Marshall
@joshtpm

Quite likely the appellate judges are as corrupt as Judge Cannon. But DOJ really needs to appeal this to the top just to not waste everyone’s time. If the corrupt federal judiciary has decided to create ex president exec priv to keep trump out of jail let’s get that into the open

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[intrepidity]

1. Yes, let's.

Get this whole shit-show out in the open and DEAL with it asap.

imho

[rubbersole]

4. Sadly, the silver lining of tfg's treasonous act might be the awakening of all of us...

..to just how close or democracy was to disappearing under oligarchs blankets of money. It still might. They are winning.

[Cha]

2. Heartbreaking but if they're

Corrupt, too.. what JM says makes sense.

Then what can DOJ do?

[Blue Owl]

3. Double standards for Donnie Two Scoops

[sarcasmo]

8. 330 million Americans, only 1 is above the law.

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. Not really, the real billionaires are also above the law

Worse, they make the law. MF45 is just a tool.

[SergeStorms]

5. "Ex-president executive privilege".

Have you ever heard of, or even imagined, something as ridiculous as that?

This is exactly what the Federalist Society has been working toward for decades, and why McConnell stole TWO Supreme Court Justices.

[RussBLib]

6. Many Trump-appointed judges have done the right thing

...and ruled against Trump and FOR the law. There are 6 Trump judges on the 11-person panel. Surely all 6 are not willing to sell their integrity.

[BootinUp]

7. It shouldn't be long

to find out.

[FBaggins]

18. There will likely be only three judges involved

The 11th is heavily red, so the question will be *which* of those judges will “randomly” be assigned.

[Rhiannon12866]

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[liberalla]

11. This last tweet by karen smith is where I land...

Indict trumpf in DC and take it out of Cannon's corrupt hands.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. I'm on board with this, too - it's way, way long past time

Though he's still got to answer for charges in New York and Georgia! Every day he's still free to commit criminal acts, that's exactly what he does...

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[kentuck]

10. I tend to agree with Josh...

Let's get it to the Supreme Court as soon as possible. I would not expect the Eleventh Circuit to vote any different than this Judge. They are assisting Trump in his delay of the process.

Let's send it to the Supreme Court and get it out in the open. Let the Court decide.

[Samrob]

25. Trump appointed judges have decided against Trump in almost every case except this one and one

procedural appeal. I will believe until proven otherwise that even the judges in the 11th will rule in favor of the law which they understand better than Cannon.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Or a President could say the special master is not authorized to see those classified docs.

Let's see if Cannon can enforce her trump valentine ruling.

[questionseverything]

17. She needs rico charges, she is obstructing justice for tfg multiple crimes

[rpannier]

14. I find it baffling with all the National Security laws the U.S. has

that there isn't one the gov't can invoke to bypass this judge

[FBaggins]

19. How could that be?

If Congress tried to pass a law allowing the bypassing of the judiciary, what court would find such a law to be constitutional?

[rpannier]

27. We have FISA Laws with their own Courts

Military Courts
We have a lot of ways around many things
I am just surprised there isn't a law already on the books that works around something related to National Security (possibly time sensitive)

[FBaggins]

28. Nope

We do indeed have FISA, but they are not military courts. Indeed… the selected special master was a FISA judge for several years.

FISA judges are part of the judicial branch and are selected by the SCOTUS Chief Justice

[ecstatic]

20. Exactly! Nt

[spanone]

21. Delay, Delay, Delay

it appears trump is judge cannon's special master

[Deminpenn]

22. I respect Josh Marshall,

but I think he's jumped the shark here.

[msfiddlestix]

23. How do you mean? What makes you think Josh jumped the shark?

[BootinUp]

24. Didn't make sense to me either. Nt

[Deminpenn]

26. The entire 11th circuit corrupt?

Is Cannon an incompetent judge making it up as she goes? Sure seems so. Is the entire 11th circuit corrupt? Come on, man. But that's what Marshall said in his tweet.

Consider, too, what some legal beagles have to say about Barr, Yoo and Christie criticizing Cannon's rulings, that they fly in the face of the legal theory that's at the heart of the Federalist Society - that of the Unitary Executive where all power rests with the sitting president. These Trump appointees weren't chosen by Trump, they were chosen by Leonard Leo and McConnell. Trump was just the vehicle used to nominate them.