Posted on 06/06/2024 9:41:30 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case has been criticized by legal experts for her "baffling" rescheduling of a number of hearings in the already delayed trial.
Judge Aileen Cannon announced on Wednesday that there will be a shuffle of the timeline as she intends to rule on a number of legal arguments connected to the case. Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, has already indefinitely postponed the start of the federal trial pending the outcome of several appeals and motions.
From June 21, Cannon will hold hearings on Trump's arguments that Special Counsel Jack Smith, the lead prosecutor in the case, was unlawfully appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland as it was not first approved by the Senate.
Cannon added a hearing on the gag order request from the Department of Justice to prevent Trump from making potentially inflammatory remarks about law enforcement ahead of the trial.
There will also be another hearing on Trump's arguments to suppress some evidence obtained following the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 on the grounds of Trump's attorney-client privilege......
"This whole way she has conducted this case is wildly, totally, crazily unusual," Toobin told CNN's AC360 on Wednesday.
"And the allowing of outsiders to participate in a day-and-a-half hearing that most judges would decide on briefs or maybe give 10 minutes aside to argue is just another illustration that she is trying to kill this prosecution. That's the only conclusion you can draw."
When Garland announced the appointment of Smith in November 2022 as special counsel, he cited his "authority" as attorney general to do so.
The Justice Department allows the attorney general to appoint a special counsel under "extraordinary circumstances." When announcing Smith as special counsel,
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Translation: “Didn’t Judge Cannon get the memo?!? We’ve already decided Trump is guilty, her job was just to grease the wheels for that to happen like the Judge in New York. Yet she actually thinks Trump deserves a FAIR trial?!? Insanity!”
We are hearing from some of the stupidest legal analysts alive. The seem never to have heard of due process or of amicus counsel.
“How did this jerk off redeem himself?”
We see what you did there...
Odd Toobin is just Yankin’ Your Chain..
ALSO UNPRECEDENTED:
A “SPECIAL COUNSEL WHO WAS NEVER PROPERLY APPOINTED/ CONFIRMED, etc.
GOD BLESS HER
SHE IS PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN.
GARLAND WILL NOT BE PLEASED.
THIS NET MIGHT CATCH HIM, ALSO.
Jack was required to be confirmed as prosecutor by the US Congress.
Jack was not confirmed as prosecutor by the US Congress.
Case closed.
How can Judge Cannon, sitting in judgment of the person who appointed her, NOT be a conflict of interest?
That’s the biggest conflict of interest I’ve ever heard of!
Toobin’s whole way he has conducted his dingaling is wildly, totally, crazily unusual.
At this point, I do not trust any judge any lawyer anybody that’s involved in the judicial system! And I am not the only one that feels this way. 95% of Americans feel the judicial branch has turned against the people. Only the 5% are thrilled with their Marxist communist POS, corrupt lawyers and judges that hover over the lives of the US citizens! I believe the damage done to the judicial branch is beyond repair. The next step is for them to become exactly like those Marxist who completely do the bidding of their dictators who have their boots on the necks of it’s citizens!
Wildly unusual? You mean like all the crap “Judge” Merchan pulled? Cannon has done NOTHING that could be reversed on appeal. I pray we gain control of both houses of Congress plus the White House. Thomas wants to retire, and Cannon needs to be on the SC.
So what he is saying, is, he is not used to a Judge, that follows proper procedures and the laws, instead of using their position for political persecutions..
And what is your opinion of merchan who donated to Biden being the judge in a case involving biden’s opponent? Or the same judge who gagged Trump so he couldn’t discuss the fact that merchan’s daughter is a democratic fundraiser and raising large amounts of money off the trial as well as one of her top clients is schiff who is a known trump hater and the judge refused to recuse himself.
Irrelevant to this conversation, but I think that’s not good either.
It’s far less of a conflict of interest than judging the guy who appointed you.
Newbie TDS signup shows zitslef to be ignorant. If you eliminate all the judges appointed by a D and all the judges appointed by an R there are no judges you twit.
The media is delusional. Remember, they’ve been claiming for the past four years that the Biden laptop is Russian disinformation.
It turns out that the laptop that was once widely denounced is being used as evidence by federal prosecutors to prove the president’s son lied about his drug use on a gun form.
and acting judge Merchan?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/potential-misconduct-behind-judge-merchan-225924460.html
If they are baffled then it is because they are used to the DOJ controlling the Judges, court procedures, and courtrooms. Judge Cannon hasn’t allowed that in this case.
Or, maybe they haven’t been keeping abreast of the court documents in the case that revealed the malfeasance by the FBI & DOJ.
I suspect it is the former.
She was appointed by the person sitting in her courtroom. That’s a conflict of interest.
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