Posted on 04/16/2018 3:23:21 PM PDT by Coronal
NEW YORK (WABC) -- A federal judge rejected a request from President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Michael Cohen for a temporary restraining order that would have kept federal prosecutors from reading files seized in raids last week.
Judge Kimba Wood said a government taint team can weed out privileged documents, but she left open the possibility an independent third party could play a role at a later time, in the interest of "the perception of fairness."
"I have faith in the Southern District prosecutors, that their integrity is unimpeachable," Wood said.
Her ruling came at the end of a hearing attended by Cohen and Stormy Daniels, who sat feet apart but did not appear to interact.
Daniels was swarmed by photographers and nearly fell as she was hustled into a federal courthouse. Wearing a lilac suit and high heels, Daniels was the main attraction - for the media anyway - at the court hearing before a federal judge made her ruling.
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Pretty sad considering that her interest is nothing more than potential blackmail.
THAT'S why there are non-disclosure agreements.
The relative impeachability of the SD prosecutors is not a legal consideration. The appearance of fairness is similarly not a legal consideration. The judge’s impeachability, however, is very much a consideration.
They already have.
Today, they leaked that Cohen has handled legal work for Sean Hannity.
BS, right there Ms. NeverTrumper.
Very interesting Kimba Wood is the judge.
She’s a former Playboy playmate of some kind.
I suppose they manipulated the docket to get her for her empathy to Stormy Daniels.
She’s also had a number of nasty divorces.
Yeah, probably the same towering level of unimpeachable integrity as we were told, over and over, that Comey and Mueller possess. A great rule of thumb is that, the more anyone talks about integrity, and claims it for themselves or their associates, the less of it they have.
People who actually have integrity are not comfortable talking about it, in themselves or in their close associates. Those constantly babbling about integrity are just the modern day, moral equivalent of the old time snake oil salesmen.
We’re about due for a plot twist. All roads are connected to Fusion GPS and the Carter Page FISA warrant.
You’re thinking more strategically than most - it’s as much about HOW than WHAT.
If they screwed up (or screw up in the future) this could all backfire, bigly. The “fruit of the poisonous tree” principle says that if the method by which evidence is obtained is tainted, then the evidence itself is too and cannot be used. So it’s possible that if this can be proven, everything they took could be declared off-limits in this or future actions. Not to say it will, or that it should have been done, but over-zealous searches can end up hurting the prosecutors rather than helping.
Double Bag Barf!
Note that
- Wood didn’t recuse herself although she has bright and shining reasons to do so
- Trump’s appointee to be the Southern District Attorney was recused I believe BY Rosenstein so the Deputy could sign off on this raid: they needed to get Trump’s guy out of the way so they could pull this stunt
And we are supposed to believe that the cops going through the evidence are completely apolitical, just Noble Beings of Light who a defendant is supposed to trust?
Insane. You might as well have a court system run by the police. Soviet police, in fact.
"Judge Kimba Wood is presiding over trial of @realDonaldTrumps lawyer. She was picked by Bill Clinton to be Attorney General. Now she has power over the lawyer who works for the man who beat Bills wife in the 2016 election. WHERES THE THE RECUSAL?"
This is the same judge that presided over George Soro’s third wedding to Tamiko Bolton in 2013:
Judge Wood was appointed by Ronald Reagan.
...Daniels was the main attraction - for the media anyway...
Maybe she will find redemption like the former prostitute, Rahab, did at Jericho.
This coup is taking an awfully long time. Why don’t they just get it over with? After a day or two, most of the viewing public will not even notice the change.
Not a leak; Cohen disclosed it on the record in the courtroom.
Why wasn’t this woman asked to recuse herself? Anyone with any connection to the Clintons should not be hearing anything involving Trump!
Why is recusal only for Republicans?
Who appointed this judge?
Sean Hannity denies being a client so what does that make the judge, besides a POS?
When AG Sessions wakes up, maybe next month, he can take charge of this federal action.
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