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Trump Ruling Lifts Profile of Judge and Raises Legal Eyebrows
NYT via MSN ^ | Sept.6, 2022 | Charlie Savage and. Kitty Bennett

Posted on 09/07/2022 7:09:49 AM PDT by libstripper

MIAMI — In her just over 20 months as a federal judge, Aileen M. Cannon worked mostly in obscurity, becoming nominated and appointed to her position during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and at the end of a turbulent presidency.

Then, last month, she was assigned the most prominent case of her short judicial career, involving the very person who put her on the bench: former President Donald J. Trump.

On Monday, Judge Cannon granted Mr. Trump’s request to appoint an independent arbiter known as a special master to review materials seized last month from his private Florida club. The extraordinary and unusually broad decision, which could delay the criminal investigation into Mr. Trump, drew scrutiny from experts who questioned her legal reasoning and criticized some of the language in her opinion about what rights a former president is entitled to.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aileencannon; cannon; charliesavage; decision; demagogicparty; doj; kittybennett; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; ronklain; trump
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Do the liberals oppose proper legal procedures, such as verifying the documents seized are the ones covered by the secret search warrant???

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Only if it’s a liberal Democrat that’s under investigation.


21 posted on 09/07/2022 7:41:15 AM PDT by Kevin in California (EP)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“What is so controversial, about the special master, who will review the documentation?”

Nothing at all. Lefties say “oh this sets a precedent and everyone who is being investigated will demand this and it will slow prosecutions”. But of course, not everyone is the former President of the United States. And most criminal suspects are not subject to an overly broad, invalid on its face search warrant that is designed for a politically-motivated fishing expedition. Criminal prosecutors are usually very careful about search warrants because if they are not, they destroy their own ability to make a successful prosecution.

Then there is the fact that the special master must be approved by both parties. So even the lefties complaining that the Trump-appointed judge might be biased can’t make the same argument about the special master. If the master is biased, then that will be the DOJ’s fault for approving them.

The real complaint, that the left won’t say out loud, is that the appointment ensures that there is no chance of a Trump indictment weeks before the November election. That’s what has their panties in a knot.


22 posted on 09/07/2022 7:43:56 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: \/\/ayne

Indeed. Without the ability to mold, shape, distort, fabricate and selectively leak information to sway the public AND any Grand Jurors, pre-empaneled, these biased partisan FBI and DOJ jackboots cannot ‘create new evidence.’

If they don’t like it, then they can escalate it. Let’s escalate it to the USSC for a ruling and then they, MSM, Democrat sycophant politicians and operatives can then just STFU.


23 posted on 09/07/2022 7:46:04 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: gibsonguy
"So It turns out Melania and Barron have no home they live in a “private club”."


24 posted on 09/07/2022 7:47:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: libstripper

“The extraordinary and unusually broad...”

Funny, I don’t recall the NYT saying that about the search warrant that “authorized” the FBI to seize everything, including Trump’s medical records, tax records, thousands of photographs, some of his clothes, and attorney-client materials.


25 posted on 09/07/2022 7:50:27 AM PDT by euram
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To: libstripper
Looks good too.


26 posted on 09/07/2022 7:50:32 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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To: Red Badger

such as the judge who signed the order to raid his home?


27 posted on 09/07/2022 7:52:29 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: libstripper

From the article. “The extraordinary and unusually broad decision,...” That pretty much describes the warrant.


28 posted on 09/07/2022 7:53:46 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: libstripper

“.. The extraordinary and unusually broad decision, ..”

The only extraordinary and unusually broad decision was for a judge or magistrate to issue a search warrant against a former president of the US. That judge should go down in infamy.


29 posted on 09/07/2022 7:54:31 AM PDT by elpadre (W )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Partisan Media Shills and Stooges alert.

30 posted on 09/07/2022 8:04:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SmokingJoe
The extraordinary and unusually broad decision

It was also an extraordinary and unusually broad decision to rifle a former First Lady's undies drawer.

31 posted on 09/07/2022 8:10:35 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: libstripper

I wonder if the NYT ever does profiles of Democratic appointed judges. Or maybe the Republican appointed judges are the only ones that, in the opinion of the NYT, aren’t qualified to practice law . . .


32 posted on 09/07/2022 9:08:06 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: libstripper

More experts.


33 posted on 09/07/2022 9:13:02 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
Maybe I’m missing something, but …

The distinction between what is admitted “at trial” and what is taken by the FBI “during the investigation” seems to be completely irrelevant once it was determined that PRIVILEGED material (attorney-client, for example) was taken from the residence during the search.

34 posted on 09/07/2022 9:20:10 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: libstripper

I hate that stupid media phrase “raises eyebrows.”


35 posted on 09/07/2022 9:31:53 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: taxcontrol

The warrant was “unusually broad” if you ask me.

It was a “search and seizure” totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL.


36 posted on 09/07/2022 9:40:05 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: libstripper

Judge Robert’s chief of staff recently resigned. Was he the leaker?


37 posted on 09/07/2022 9:45:13 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: lurk

Whether this judge or another down the road, the question of equal treatment has to be raised. Has NARA and the DOJ also done a raid and inventory of the homes of Carter, Bush, Clinton, Obama?


So true. Especially clinton


38 posted on 09/07/2022 9:56:10 AM PDT by patriotspride (Third generation Vet. Never forget the true cost of freedom)
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To: libstripper

I see that gAG Barr has an opinion on a case he learned about from MSM? How about the yeomans work you did burying the Franklin Scandal, where Boystown orphans were used in DC to be parking devices for those in power in DC, even the White House with GHWBoooosh. Or how his “best friend”Robert Muller was a fine man with a great mind, until we learn he is in a class with one other great mind...Joe Bai din.


39 posted on 09/07/2022 2:46:27 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
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