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LetMyPeopleVote

(144,004 posts)
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 09:04 PM Sep 2022

Opinion The Trump-appointed judge delivers the goods for her patron

Judge Loose Cannon is a partisan hack who should not be on the bench



https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/09/16/trans-students-virginia-bathroom-sports/

If you still had doubts that Donald Trump’s relentless court-packing poses profound challenges to the legitimacy of the judiciary, U. S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling in favor of the man who appointed her should resolve them.

No one is above the law, we once comforted ourselves. Even if Trump could not be indicted while he was president because of a (questionable) Justice Department policy, he would certainly face full accountability after he left office. He would be treated just like everyone else.

Nope, said Cannon. Trump is still special. He has rights no one else has because he is an ex-president. She said so right out. “Based on the nature of this action,” Cannon wrote, “the principles of equity require the Court to consider the specific context at issue, and that consideration is inherently impacted by the position formerly held by Plaintiff.”

Meaning that, even if no other American would enjoy the right to have a special master examine secret and top secret documents that any of the rest of us would likely be indicted for possessing, Trump is “inherently” above us. This is a ruling tailored for one man, which is not supposed to happen in a free society......

Cannon’s legal antics come at an awkward time for those — led by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. — who scold anyone questioning the judiciary’s legitimacy in the wake of the unparalleled efforts by Trump, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) when he was majority leader, and the conservative Federalist Society to stuff the courts with conservatives.
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Opinion The Trump-appointed judge delivers the goods for her patron (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2022 OP
The Loose Qannon renders herself illegitimate by her unreasoned rulings. Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2022 #1
It is extraordinary that she would write EndlessWire Sep 2022 #2

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,040 posts)
1. The Loose Qannon renders herself illegitimate by her unreasoned rulings.
Sun Sep 18, 2022, 11:48 PM
Sep 2022

She ignores law and precedent on her illogical path to achieve a predetermined result, just as the Extreme Court ignored law, precedent, logic and the U.S. Constitution to push an extremist ideology.


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EndlessWire

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2. It is extraordinary that she would write
Mon Sep 19, 2022, 03:01 AM
Sep 2022

this deferential treatment into her opinions. You'd think that she might want to hide this thinking. But, apparently, it seems okay with her.

This is a critical juncture of our Democracy. If Garland can't get him, then we are going fascist. You can hardly blame anybody for being upset.

Cannon has thrown her self respect away. Why she would allow T**** to destroy her career, I don't get. She will forever be remembered as the Judge whose judicial opinions were so ignorant, dumb and nonsensical that all lawyers everywhere laughed at her.

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