Judge Cannon's rulings are so bad they raise a question that is 'impossible not to ask': ex-prosecut

[UCmeNdc]

A federal judge on Thursday set aside a measure imposed by a special master asking former President Donald J. Trump to certify the accuracy of the F.B.I.’s inventory of the property it had seized from his Florida estate last month, overruling an arbiter she had appointed herself," the newspaper explained. "In removing the restrictions the special master had sought to impose, Judge Cannon essentially let Mr. Trump and his legal team out of a box that Judge Dearie had tried to put them in."


"Cannon’s treatment of Dearie, a far more senior and esteemed Article III judge, is one more piece of evidence that she is completely unfit to serve on the bench," he argued.

"What does Donald Trump have on Judge Cannon or her husband?" Weissman wondered.

"Something is so off in her decisions (and the court of appeals said as much) that it is impossible not to ask this question in all seriousness," he explained.


https://www.rawstory.com/trump-judge-aileen-cannon/

[DURHAM D]

1. I don't think it is Trump who owns Cannon.

I think it is a foreign national.

[JI7]

3. But what would they have on her ? Couldn't she just be a right wing

piece of shit ?

[DURHAM D]

7. We dont know much about her.

When did she come to the US. Is she an American citizen?

[OLDMDDEM]

2. I may be wrong on this

but I think her husband worked in the Trump White House.

[dalton99a]

4. He is in the restaurant business

Aileen Cannon, 28, attorney, and Josh Lorence, 27, restaurant manager (The Knot)

[OLDMDDEM]

5. Thank you

I must have been thinking of someone else.

[33taw]

6. Drearie does not have Judge status in this

case. The DOJ needs to appeal. I hope the DOJ filmed the search.

[Justice matters.]

8. I'm waiting for the news the DoJ will appeal her lawless ruling.

Oh, and they better have filmed the search. If not, something smells...

[onenote]

9. I think there is zero chance the DOJ will appeal this ruling.

To be honest, I'm not convinced it was the wrong ruling. I don't understand how Dearie could expect Trump to address the accuracy of the DOJ's inventory (which is not a specific listing of every document but merely a summary of the contents of the seized materials (e.g., "396 US Government Documents/Photographs Without Classified Markings&quot without first being given an opportunity to review the seized documents. As it stands, if Trump doesn't challenge the accuracy of the inventory after reviewing the documents he will have conceded the accuracy of the inventory.

And the DOJ response to the objection to the pre-review verification requirement was pretty half-hearted. DOJ argued that "the Special Master needs to know that that he is reviewing all of the materials seized from Mar- a-Lago on August 8, 2022 – and no additional materials – before he categorizes the seized documents and adjudicates privilege claims." But the Special Master's review doesn't occur until after the documents have been reviewed by Trump so it doesn't really interfere with the Special Master's review for Trump to be given an opportunity to review the documents before addressing the accuracy of the inventory.

[EndlessWire]

13. So, please address this

I have stuff going on, so I can't go back to see it. I did read the very last order from Cannon. If I remember correctly, in a footnote she addressed the issue of jurisdiction by saying that she had jurisdiction because the warrant was executed in the place of his residence. Yet, PRA states that it "shall" have jurisdiction over Presidential records. The 11th circuit also questioned the jurisdiction issue. So, what's your opinion? I think they should send the mess to D.C.

[onenote]

14. The PRA's jurisdiction provision has no relevance to this case. Never has.

The pertinent provision is 5 USC 2204(e), which states: "The United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction over any action initiated by the former President asserting that a determination made by the Archivist violates the former President’s rights or privileges."

The Archivist has never made any determination about the documents seized on August 8. In fact, the Archives still doesn't have those documents. And that has been the DOJ's position, which explains why at no point during the litigation over these documents -- whether before the district court or the 11th Circuit, has the DOJ argued that the case should have been brought in DC.

The "jurisdiction" point you are thinking of has to do with the "equitable jurisdiction" of a court to intervene in a criminal case. The 11th circuit pointed out that Cannon's analysis of this particular issue was flawed but limited its ruling to the classified documents, which was all that the DOJ had asked it to consider.

[EndlessWire]

15. TY n/t

[RedSpartan]

10. Well, to be fair, she's an unqualified political hack.

[Heather MC]

11. She's happy to do Donald Trump's bidding

Stop kidding yourselves and thinking these people are doing this against their will


They love it, she loves it, that's why she did it🤷🏾?♀️

[RVN VET71]

12. "I do you this favor,"said the Dom ...

And some day - and that day may never come - I may ask you to do a favor for me” the Dom continued.

Obviously, that day has come and the “Don” is calling in his favor. Canon’s reputation, such as it is, is ruined. Ironically, she has lost it repaying the debt she incurred when Trump-McConnell appointed her to a position she did not deserve and, clearly, lacked even the barest integrity and ethics it requires.