Joyce White Vance: Will the 11th Circuit Trump Trump?

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This, right here. Thank you, ⁦@JoyceWhiteVance⁩ , for this excellent explanation as to *why* and *how* Judge Cannon is wrong.

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Will the 11th Circuit Trump Trump?
Saturday afternoon, the Eleventh Circuit put DOJ’s motion to stay federal district Judge Aileen Cannon’s order on a fast track. That order, as you’ll recall, prohibited DOJ from using documents...
8:44 AM · Sep 18, 2022

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/will-the-11th-circuit-trump-trump


Saturday afternoon, the Eleventh Circuit put DOJ’s motion to stay federal district Judge Aileen Cannon’s order on a fast track. That order, as you’ll recall, prohibited DOJ from using documents seized from former president Trump’s office and storage area at Mar-a-Lago in its criminal investigation until a special master she appointed can review them. DOJ asked her to let them continue to work with classified documents that were recovered, while the review of other materials reclaimed in the search proceeds. She refused. The 11th Circuit ordered Trump’s attorneys to respond to the stay motion DOJ filed late Friday by Tuesday.

If you feel like you’ve been watching a ping pong match in the courts lately, you’re not alone. Today’s scheduling order is only the latest parry in Trump’s efforts to derail investigation into why he had classified material and federal records at Mar-a-Lago, long after his presidency ended.

It's confusing. So, let’s make sure we understand the state of play as we head into the new week.

By now, we all know that DOJ executed a lawful search warrant at Mar-a-Lago after Trump spent months haggling over the return of papers that belonged to the government. Ultimately one of his lawyers signed a document certifying that all of the materials were returned. This was a lie. Numerous records including approximately one hundred classified documents were found when DOJ executed its search warrant. Some folders that should have contained classified material were empty. Nothing is publicly known about the fate of those documents.

Trump’s response, two weeks later and after DOJ had complete its review of seized material, was to file a lawsuit, not with the magistrate who signed off on the search warrant, but with a judge in a different division in the Southern District of Florida, who he had appointed to the bench. Of course, as I pointed out in an earlier post, everyone who is a federal judge gets there because a president from one party or the other appoints them. Our expectation as citizens is that once judges receive life tenure, which insulates them from the opprobrium of those who put them on the bench, they will set aside politics and rule on the cases that come before them based solely on the facts and the law.

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1. doubtful... too many Trumpists.

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2. However the 11th rules, the case is going to SCOTUS. NT