Posted on 12/01/2022 3:01:01 PM PST by semimojo
In a major defeat for former President Donald Trump, a federal appeals court on Thursday halted a third-party review of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The ruling removes a major obstacle to the Justice Department’s investigation into the mishandling of government records from Trump’s time in the White House.
In a ruling on Thursday, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order appointing a so-called special master to sort through thousands of documents found at Trump’s home to determine what should be off limits to investigators.
“The law is clear,” the appeals court 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.”
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Bunch of O’Bummer judges legislating from the bench
Nice try.
The law is clear, democrats can do whatever they want to people who are orange and bad
The Court cite a case from 1794 (way too old to be relevant) and a case named Cobbledick (obviously requested by Stormy Daniels to troll Trump)
Cool. So the next DoJ following any President can try to fry the previous guy for things he did in office they dint like.
Yup, that’s what the Founders had in mind.
No you stupid twits - the law is clear that a citizen have priority over the government, especially when the government has proven itself corrupted and taking punitive actions and selective law enforcement.
The judges are 100% right.
But at this point the “defense” is allowed to see the affidavit.
I would send FBI agents into the homes of every former president to find the items they took.
Guaranteed to find some.
Yep!
It’s called “self-immolation”...
Spin baby spin…. There is nothing there. Doesnt matter who looks at it.
In a ruling on Thursday, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s order appointing a so-called special master to sort through thousands of documents found at Trump’s home to determine what should be off limits to investigators.
I’m confused...did the DOJ remove “thousands of documents”
or what???
You people are pissing up a rope thinking "ah, Trump's-In-The-Noose-Now #4199".There are far, far, far too many key players on both sides of the aisle that do NOT want the Unitary Executive shackled in any way, shape or form.
When Bushes and McCrisis aided Cankles and Obama in the Russia Hoax, Poppy (don't forget, Poppy did not croak until 2 years into Trump's presidency) extracted a promise that their goal was to cripple President Trump, not remove him.
And then Nanzi nearly broke that deal.
But actually removing Trump would have set precedent for removing a future Unitary Executive. That would be, in Dana-does-Bush: "Bad, it's bad!".
As declassification has very little stare decisis as a matter of law, there have been a handful of papers speculating what any President's powers are in this regard, and almost all of them printed before this raid, land squarely on the side of Executive Privilege.
But the key here is SCOTUS, and this SCOTUS can't get enough Unitary Executive (if not so much Executive Privilege), Roberts will still thread the needle in favor of Trump.
Why? AGAIN, because failure to do so will set precedent for prosecuting a future -- or perhaps even a retired or soon-to-be retired Democrat/Socialist ex-President."
Even worse is the tax return snatch. They may be allowed to go public with somebody else’s tax return.
correction.
Democrats can do whatever they want. (period).
Right now, this very moment, thousands if not a million Classified documents from the Obama Administration are languishing in Chicago, in a year-to-year lease in a non-secure building from a failing company (Transformco, literally the glue holding the ashes of Sears together), in an easily-accessible suburban location, likely behind nothing more than a single deadbolt on the interior glass doors.
Think about that.
If the original judge's ruling stood every drug dealer, thief or white collar criminal served with a legal search warrant could prevent law enforcement from examining what they seized during the search.
The original order installing the special master was beyond radical.
Probably not allowed to go public, but they can leak it and nothing will be done.
However, this sets a precedence that the GOP if they had the balls. Can no look at Biden’s entire family taxes since he was elected. And then connect the dots. And leak them as well.
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