Posted on 06/19/2023 10:15:49 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A federal judge has blocked former President Donald Trump from disclosing evidence and sensitive information discussed in his classified documents case.
US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who signed off last August on the search warrant for the 77-year-old’s Mar-a-Lago resort, sided with the Justice Department on Monday after special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors filed a motion to keep the evidence in the case secured during the discovery process.
The judge said Trump and co-defendant Walt Nauta cannot “disclose the Discovery Materials or their contents directly or indirectly to any person or entity other than persons employed to assist in the defense, persons who are interviewed as potential witnesses, counsel for potential witnesses, and other persons to whom the Court may authorize disclosure.
“Defendants shall only have access to Discovery Materials under the direct supervision of Defense Counsel or a member of Defense Counsel’s staff. Defendants shall not retain copies of Discovery Material,” Reinhart added.
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I will not have facts released in MY court room I have friends in D.C. .
OK not a lawyer...
But the Judge assigned to this case is Judge Cannon, what right does Rinehart have to instruct what Trump can and cannot do?
Trump can make himself a martyr out of this but anyone looking at the details, especially anyone who has had or has a security clearance, is a veteran, etc., will at best cringe at what he has done.
And again, just because others have done the same, is not excuse. They all should be held to same standard and prosecuted.
I wonder if that holds any more power than releasing the preliminary Abortion rulings by the supreme court judges?
But if he leaks it to a buddy at Columbia University, who then provides it to the press, that’s ok.
The FIB took this to the rat Judge got what they wanted and Cannon is just letting it happen. They set this up when they went on all last week about her being a “Trump Judge”. They are daring her to do anything about it.
Just a short note. Julie Kelly has provided a portion of the sealed DOJ motion requesting a judge to block President Trump
from having access to his own presidential records.
As noted by attorney Mike Davis, “The Biden Justice Department keeps pretending these are not presidential records. “[T]he Presidential records of a former President shall be available to such former President or the former President’s designated representative.” 44 U.S.C. § 2205(3).”
Additionally, as noted by numerous others, the constitutional framework of this ideological outlook is substantively flawed. The records are created by agencies within government for the exclusive use and benefit of the Chief Executive Officer of the government, the President of the United States.
There is no agency, institution, system of government or administrative executive bureaucracy above the authority of the President of the United States. These are President Trump’s records.
There is no constitutional basis from which a lower subset of the executive branch of government can attempt to restrict access. The President is the highest constitutional officer, everything and everyone else is less than; and yes, that includes when the records of his administration are assembled after he leaves office.
The DOJ wants to limit public knowledge of the material evidence, not because it would harm national security – but rather because the nature of the evidence itself would highlight to the nation how fraudulent the targeting is. This is the guaranteed DOJ motive, that’s why everything is under seal and even the media will not talk about how they are gaining their leak knowledge. This is LAWFARE narrative engineering at its apex deployment. (more)
Hopefully everyone can see now why I created so much context for the Fourth Branch of Government. The DOJ is essentially arguing that some unknown administrative state has a superior position to the executive branch of government.
The US DOJ are affirming a belief in the omnipotent Fourth Branch of Government that Barack Obama created.
>Trump... cannot “disclose the Discovery Materials or their contents directly or indirectly to any person or entity other than persons employed to assist in the defense...
So throw a massive “defense recruitment rally”, pay each attendee $0.01, and deem them employed as members of the defense team.
Yeah.
They would slap a full gag order on him if they could to protect the scumbags persecuting him.
We have statists here on FR who are headfirst in the rectum of the Media and the Left and fully support the persecution of this President by the State, because they are, well, Orange Man Bad.
Screw them.
Thanks. Thought that was weird.
Makes sense seeing as the government is pretending that the documents are classified.
So how does he even defend himself?
A federal magistrate handles pre-trial aspects of the case, i.e. discovery disputes, etc. The Trial Judge handles dispositive motions such as summary judgments or motions to dismiss, evidentiary rulings and the Trial itself
Spot on. But we have people here on FR who think this treatment of a former President is just grand, because it isn’t their ox getting gored.
They are too stupid to see that if the government can do this to Trump, they can do it to any of us, for any reason they like.
““Defendants shall only have access to Discovery Materials under the direct supervision of Defense Counsel or a member of Defense Counsel’s staff. Defendants shall not retain copies of Discovery Material,” Reinhart added.”
Abjectly criminal. Discovery is releasing the evidence to the defendant. The defendant’s lawyer is a staff member working FOR the defendant, not his supervisor. Suppose the defendant wants to stay up all night reading the evidence for his next meeting with the lawyer?
And then, how does this magistrate judge set the evidence rules for the courtroom of a Federal District Judge?
Justice Thomas will soon be involved.
Ah. You didn't get the notice, I see!
He isn't SUPPOSED to defend himself. This is easily seen by the fact that there is a concerted effort to even deny him legal representation by ensuring that anyone who works in his defense will be branded a "persona non grata" in the community, and can kiss any job opportunities goodbye if they do so.
Judge Bruce Reinhart is very crooked. We have known that for years now. And to think that some people thought he was a good judge.
Trump can defend himself just fine. He doesn’t need to release the content of the DoD Iran attack plans to defend why he had them, whether he declassified them or not, and how they were personal presidential papers. Seriously, do we and everyone need to know the word-for-word detail in that and other documents? The content is not on trial. It is Trump’s actions with that document that is.
* Controlling the Explanations.
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