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Judge Aileen Cannon Is Quietly Sabotaging the Trump Classified Documents Case
Slate ^ | 1/16/2024 | Dennis Aftergut and Laurence H. Tribe

Posted on 01/16/2024 5:13:10 PM PST by Belteshazzar

On Friday, District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a new order in the Donald Trump classified documents case adding to the mountain of evidence that she is firmly in the former president’s pocket. Trump appointed Cannon in 2020 and the Senate confirmed her appointment in the days after he lost the 2020 election. It’s deeply offensive to the rule of law for judges to bend the law to benefit those who put them on the bench. Sadly, Cannon does just that.

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The leftward bias in this article is breathtaking. It purports to be a news report and reads like a badly-written editorial. The best line is: "New York University law professor Andrew Weissmann, the mild-mannered and knowledgeable former deputy to special counsel Robert S. Mueller ..."
1 posted on 01/16/2024 5:13:10 PM PST by Belteshazzar
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To: Belteshazzar

By “sabotage” they mean, not letting Jack Smith run riot


2 posted on 01/16/2024 5:14:18 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

No, “sabotage” means “What do you mean you haven’t found him guilty yet?”


3 posted on 01/16/2024 5:16:24 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Belteshazzar

I guess it’s a real bitch when you get back what you’ve been giving out.


4 posted on 01/16/2024 5:16:51 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: Belteshazzar

I guess it’s a real bitch when you get back what you’ve been giving out.


5 posted on 01/16/2024 5:16:54 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: Belteshazzar

It’s from Slate. What else would you expect?


6 posted on 01/16/2024 5:16:56 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: Belteshazzar

It’s deeply offensive to the rule of law for judges to bend the law to benefit those who put them on the bench.

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Hahahahahahaha!

The left does this ALL THE TIME!!! It is offensive when someone on the right does it.


7 posted on 01/16/2024 5:17:03 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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But that’s not what’s happening. Cannon is standing up for the law, despite what Aftergut and Tribe falsely claim.


8 posted on 01/16/2024 5:18:19 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Belteshazzar

God bless Judge Cannon.


9 posted on 01/16/2024 5:18:48 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Belteshazzar
It’s deeply offensive to the rule of law for judges to bend the law to benefit those who put them on the bench. Sadly, Cannon does just that.

But it is obviously okay for a judge to obviously biased against the accused when that judge was appointed by a president of the other party.

10 posted on 01/16/2024 5:19:33 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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Cannon hasn’t done what should have been done at the outset: throw the entire case out as a fabrication and hold Smith in contempt for trying to pull this stunt on the federal court.


11 posted on 01/16/2024 5:22:11 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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New York University law professor Andrew Weissmann, the mild-mannered and knowledgeable former deputy to special counsel Robert S. Mueller

I'll just let that otherworldly description hang there without comment.

12 posted on 01/16/2024 5:23:18 PM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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13 posted on 01/16/2024 5:24:53 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Belteshazzar

From a legal standpoint there is only one real question in this case that matters.

Does the President have absolute de-classification authority and does the act of removing such from the WH, while still President, qualify as declassification.

This was the accepted precedent by the courts after the Clinton tapes case brought by Judicial Watch (and decided by a Judge now on SCOTUS). Her opinion was clear and nobody appealed it (of course) so it is the best indication we have of the Federally accepted “opinion” on the law.

All of this noise you hear on the left or the right about “the nuanced issues” surrounding the case are just 24/7 news-babble and rank partisanship. SCOTUS tends to condense cases down to single issues and if there is prior precedent within Federal courts it is quite rare for them to turn that upside down (even liberal justices don’t often do this).

There is little doubt that every prior President removed “documents” from office when they left, but what matters is the law and rendered opinions about the law. I believe the Justice called the authority “absolute” or something similar.


14 posted on 01/16/2024 5:26:42 PM PST by volunbeer (We are living 2nd Thessalonians)
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To: Belteshazzar

Mr Tribe, is as unbiased as Pelosi, Schumer, Shift and the FBI CIA and the JCOS.


15 posted on 01/16/2024 5:27:04 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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Dennis Aftergut?

Is that a real name? A surname for something that comes out of your gut after you eat. It’s a very appropriate name for a filthy scumbag Rat. /spit


16 posted on 01/16/2024 5:27:06 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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Cannon’s new ruling rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s entirely standard request that she order Trump to state whether he intends to rely on an “advice of counsel” defense ahead of the trial, currently scheduled for May 20. Advance notice of the defense helps expedite a trial because defendants asserting it need to provide additional discovery to prosecutors—raising the defense means that defendants must disclose all communications with their attorneys, as the defense waives the attorney–client privilege. …
IOW, Cannon protected Trump’s Constitutional rights. Sad that I had to click through to find that out.
17 posted on 01/16/2024 5:30:44 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Belteshazzar

Weissmann ran the Trump-Russia investigation and he knew it was a lie before the “investigation# even started.


18 posted on 01/16/2024 5:33:36 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: Kazan

God bless Judge Cannon.

>>>If only more judges would follow suit and dismantle these egregious charges against President Trump!!


19 posted on 01/16/2024 5:36:00 PM PST by edie1960 (7)
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Poor Larry Tribe! For years he was waiting for the call to be placed on the US Supreme Court...and it never came. And now he's just a bitter old man who's thrilled by the rare opportunity to be relevant for a few moments.

And thus we have this piece of pig swill!

20 posted on 01/16/2024 5:38:02 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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