Posted on 01/17/2025 6:43:12 PM PST by Macho MAGA Man
FORT PIERCE, Florida — A federal judge appeared highly skeptical Friday of Attorney General Merrick Garland’s plan to show lawmakers the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report pertaining to his now dismissed criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump for hoarding classified documents.
With the clock counting down towards Trump’s inauguration on Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon expressed serious doubts about nearly every argument a Justice Department attorney put forward for allowing the department to show four congressional leaders the portion of Smith’s report covering the classified-information probe.
Over the course of a 90-minute public hearing, Cannon — a Trump appointee— repeatedly questioned the urgency of showing the report to lawmakers in the coming days. The judge also challenged the safeguards the Justice Department says are in place to keep the report confidential and pressed for information on how prosecutors ensure that the report doesn’t contain information protected by grand jury secrecy.
The hearing Friday followed the Justice Department’s release of the first volume of Smith’s report on Tuesday, covering his investigation into Trump’s effort to subvert the 2020 election. Cannon blocked release of the second volume, detailing Smith’s investigation into Trump’s storage of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left office in 2021, while DOJ seeks to revive charges against Trump’s former co-defendants in that case.
“Why is there such urgency to disclose this to Congress right now, prior to the conclusion of the criminal proceeding — which would seem to be the ordinary course?” Cannon asked veteran Justice Department attorney Elizabeth Shapiro. “At the end of the day, what’s the upside of doing this right now?”
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Didn’t Meritless leave the building for the last time today?
Yes, every employee of the DOJ were standing in the hallways clapping like lobotomized seals wishing him all the best as he exited the building. They all need to be fired.
He is trying to disrupt the cabinet hearing sand give demonrats a new set of lies in the hopes to derailing the nominations.
Come Monday Garland’s and Smiths security clearances must be revoked and those document declared classified or whatever it takes so that it is illegal for them to posses them.
Yet she ruled for JS to release first part of docs! Go figure…she is not to be trusted she is another Amy Barrett!
it was disgusting
the bro shoulder hugs
the fist bumps
the lesbian tears
just
plain
disgusting
but at least they self identified
that might make the investigations easier.
The silver lining of Biden pardoning so many people: the prison cells are available for those law-breaking members of his administration.
Cannon for the Supreme Court!
Doubt it. Very little experience as a judge.
The DOJ azhos and the Feral “judges” are just having too much fun trying to throw a U.S. President in jail that they just won’t give it up. They all are trying to win an “I Got Trump” trophy with the fag flags on it for their fag offices.
Those DOJ boys and bimbos giving Garland the clap on his way out today are not our friends.
Doubt it. Very little experience as a judge.
At least she knows what a woman is, unlike some already on the court.
Cannon felt she lack jurisdiction on the J6 material. She wanted to block it. If she had, she would have been reversed quickly by the 11th circuit and looked bad in the process. I don’t blame her for staying in her lane.
The release of part 1 on J6 was a colossal dud. Smith looked like the hack he is. The J6 narrative has completely collapsed and those that cling to it are being mocked by the majority of the public. It will turn out to be a planned conspiracy to ruin Trump to the end of time. It failed in the end.
This last minute release of these reports also does harm to Trump, as he would not be able to respond in court. He would have to spend the rest of his life explaining it in person and in the media.
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