Judge Cannon hands Donald Trump an early Christmas gift by interfering with special master

[Nevilledog]

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2022/9/29/2126038/-Judge-Cannon-hands-Donald-Trump-an-early-Christmas-gift-by-interfering-with-special-master

Just because Judge Aileen Cannon gifted Donald Trump with a special master, and let him pick who he wanted to serve in that role, does not mean she’s done with stepping in to provide Trump another damn the law, full-speed ahead gift of a ruling. Just one day after Trump’s attorneys complained that they couldn’t meet the deadlines Special Master Judge Raymond Dearie had set, Cannon stepped in to not only give Trump more time—she actually extended her own deadlines, bumping the closing date all the way back to Dec. 16.

In addition, Cannon nixed a critical step of the plan that Dearie had laid out. In any special master proceeding, both sides have to agree on the inventory of documents to be reviewed. Otherwise, it’s not possible to be sure that everything that needed to be dealt with has actually been dealt with. But Cannon never ordered Trump to declare that the list given to him by the Department of Justice was accurate, or to claim that there were documents left off, or to say that there were some things that were on the list but should not be.

Just as they’ve been making noise about Trump declassifying documents without presenting one bit of evidence this ever happened, Trump’s legal team has also been insinuating that the Department of Justice might have planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago. Dearie’s insistence that Trump agree to the inventory, or state his objections, was designed to not only get the proceedings moving, but end any possibility that Trump would later claim some of the evidence was planted. Now Cannon has removed that obligation. The DOJ has to give an inventory and swear to its accuracy. Trump doesn’t have to swear to anything.

Once again, Cannon has given Trump even more than he asked for, and this is after the 11th Circuit called her to task for all the issues with her previous ruling.

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Stunningly corrupt.

[Tadpole Raisin]

1. Back to the 11th circuit?

WTF!!?

After they said he had no right to the classified stuff but now she writes he gets to look at up to 200,000 pages…
of the other stuff or the classified stuff?

Crap I can’t take her obvious duplicity.

[Effete Snob]

3. Most likely

This judge is off the rails.

[onenote]

18. I doubt it.

This has nothing to do with the classified documents.

DOJ won't bother trying to challenge her ruling.

[dalton99a]

2. That piece of shit cultist judge is so far up Trump's ass

[Effete Snob]

4. Did it make him come on Aileen?

[BSdetect]

5. I'm more suspicious than ever than tfg has contacted here in some way. More than once.

[NullTuples]

14. Him or the federalist society, of which she is a member

[calimary]

15. So am I.

I was just wondering about that! What kind of wheeler-dealing did he do with her to get all these sweetheart rulings from her?

Free accommodations at Mar-a-Lago? Free hotel rooms at Bedminster or one of his other hotel/resorts?

[Johonny]

6. Doesn't this make everything even more costly for Trump as all these people will be billing him

For a vastly longer set of time? I assume, he's not going to get away with not paying these bills.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Link to ruling (pdf) ...

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763/gov.uscourts.flsd.618763.125.0.pdf

[Chainfire]

8. I don't think you can escape the notion that that woman is bent.

I suspect that DOJ will be filing next week, again... The game is delay, Trump is winning...today.

The 11th needs to snatch a knot in cannons fuse.

[Chainfire]

9. This is all a chess game. Every week the adults set up the board to suit the

plaintiff, and every week the plaintiff knocks the board off the table.

[Fiendish Thingy]

10. Doesn't matter- 11th already overruled Cannon re: criminal investigation of classified docs

DOJ is proceeding with its criminal investigation of the classified documents, so Cannon’s ruling allowing delay of the privilege review of the other docs really doesn’t matter IMO.

[EndlessWire]

16. Yeah.

I only worry about how it will impact the Grand Jury indictment. He can't possibly say that ALL the docs were planted. But, if he doesn't make the claim and specify which ones, then how does he get past his little drama?

I'm guessing the truth is that Donald hasn't the faintest idea of what they took, or what they mean. He has only the document inventory to go by, and Cannon knows this. I guess he got what he wants, delay.

But, I can't find where the 200,000 pages are verified by the Gov. So, let's take Donald's word for it. After all, this is what Cannon hung her ruling on.

What happened to Donald's "Custodian of Documents?" What a piss poor job she did!

[onenote]

19. The order still indicates that if, after he's had a chance to review the documents,

he objects to the inventory, he "shall" raise that objection. So if he doesn't, the result is the same as before -- either he effectively concedes the inventory is accurate or he challenges it in court. It's just delayed.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Oy- Judge Cannon tinkers badly with (and with typos) Judge Dearie's scheduling order

Judges should NOT have typos in their opinions or orders

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[BlueIdaho]

13. Not a gift for TFG

Cannon is trying to get out of this case and it looks like she has found a way. Hand this whole thing over to Judge Dearie. That way TFGs only way out of this mess is to drop this case.

[Takket]

17. this is blatant corruption. she learned nothing from her 11th circuit smackdown

Perhaps DOJ should just ask if she intends to serve as special master? Dearie should resign the position if she won't allow him to do his job.