Posted on 12/01/2022 4:46:59 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
A federal appeals court on Thursday halted Judge Aileen Cannon’s special master review in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents case.
In September, Judge Cannon appointed a special master to review the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.
Biden’s corrupt Justice Department argued that a special master didn’t have a right to filter out the seized documents.
The court blasted Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, and said she erred in appointing Raymond Dearie as a special master to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago.
“The law is clear,” the judges wrote. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”
Two of the three judges on a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals were nominated by Trump.
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Normally you wait for the prosecutor to bring a criminal case against you and then challenge the introduction of the evidence obtained by that illegal search.
The President has the ultimate power to determine what is sensitive and what isn’t.
Now SCOTUS will take up the appeal.
And have at it GARLANDIA .....you are fueling the engines of a tremendous MAGA campaign.
That's begging the question. Were none of the MAL documents sensitive?
>>The president has to appoint literally hundreds of people to many, many positions practically down to the level of ‘federal dog catcher’.
Trump replaced Chris Christie as head of his transition team after the election. Christie was replaced by Pence, and Trump’s children and son-in-law were named to the executive committee.
Replacing Christie might have been a good idea, but they also threw out all the work done since May, which left them with no plan. And they didn’t have the teams ready to start work with the outgoing managers in each department on the details of the transition.
And Trump himself basically had no clue as to how the federal government was organized and how to manage it.
Another lawless court that cares nothing about DOJ lawlessness. The DOJ clearly broke the law and the court is defending them. 20 plus years ago the 11th circuit was fairly conservative. Soros and the libs then set to work to infiltrate, and fill it with flaming leftists. All of its decisions now are on the side of lawlessness and evil.
I'm not sure what you mean by "sensitive", but the President has the absolute right to declassify anything he wishes. I personally think "declassifying just by thinking about it" was a terrible argument right from the start. I view that kind of the same way I (and the legal system) view a judgement in court -- it isn't official until it is entered on the journal. Just "deciding" what the judgment is doesn't cut it.
? There's no reason he shouldn't have been able to hire first-rate legal counsel except that he would be an absolute nightmare as a client, and top lawyers don't want to deal with that. So to the extent he has had to rely on bad legal counsel...that's on him.
McConnell’s too dumb to play the long game - his Chinese masters tell him what to play and when.
THey’re not Trump judges, they are McConnell judges.
I mean sensitive as in risky to national security. He can declassify things but that doesn’t make them harmless.
Would he declassify a sensitive document just so he could take it home with him?
They were all chosen and trained by the Federalist Society. They’re just not quite as conservative as everyone had thought they were.
If it is potentially damaging to national security, then it is going to be classified at some level. And yes, the President always has the power to waive it.
It's kind of tough to argue that when they actually found documents that were the subject of the warrant.
Also, after reading that decision, it seems like he has pretty bad lawyers. The 11th Circuit took a few swipes at the quality of the arguments advanced by his attorneys.
If Trump had declassified everything like you suggested odds are good he would have declassified potentially damaging things - just so he could take them home.
In this case it doesn't really matter because according to the warrant they're using the Espionage Act which doesn't rely on the documents being classified - only potentially damaging to national security.
Not necessarily bad lawyers . . . just an unwinnable set of facts with no good arguments to be made.
Fair point...but they're still making them. And I guess my point is that fear of being put in that position is why Trump has a hard time attracting better lawyers.
I mean, nobody likes turning down billable hours, but I don't know many guys who'd want to jump on that grenade. As it is, there looks to be some awkwardness with the affidavits that were executed claiming everything had been turned over. It'd be awful to be in that position and getting pressured by your very high-profile client to sign something with which you are not comfortable.
I don't think a claim under the Espionage Act that involved unclassified materials would be brought, and if it was, it would be shot down very quickly under the First Amendment. It doesn't sound like the Espionage Act is really on the table because there isn't a claim that he actually did disclose them to anyone else.
Well, it's one of the statutes they cited in getting the warrant and it doesn't rely on classification or disclosure. Posession and/or retention is enough.
I think getting an indictment against Trump using this would be a stretch but my larger point is the whole classification discussion is a bit of a red herring.
None of the potential crimes used to get the warrant required classification.
My other point is for Trump to declassify sensitive material just so he could legally take it home, even if it threatened national security, would be pretty weak.
Information that isn’t classified isn’t going to be considered “closely-held”.
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