Judge Cannon Body Slams Biden DOJ’s Last-Ditch Lawfare Effort

The Federalist ^ | 1/27/25 | Margot Cleveland

[CFW]

A federal court on Tuesday condemned the Department of Justice’s efforts to provide members of Congress Volume II of the Special Counsel report while criminal prosecutions related to the report remained ongoing. While the country has moved on from the issue following Donald Trump’s inauguration, last week’s order crystalizes the Biden Administration’s outrageous weaponization of the DOJ against not just Trump but those associated with him.

Two weeks before Trump’s inauguration, the DOJ announced its intent to publicly release Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigations into Trump’s challenges to 2020 election and Trump’s retention of supposedly classified documents. Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, both of whom had been charged by Smith as co-defendants with Trump in the classified documents case, responded by filing an emergency motion to prevent the release of the report.

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“Never before has the Department of Justice, prior to the conclusion of criminal proceedings against a defendant — and absent a litigation-specific reason as appropriate in the case itself — sought to disclose outside the Department a report prepared by a Special Counsel containing substantive and voluminous case information. Until now.”

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However, “[t]here is no ‘historical practice’ of providing Special Counsel reports to Congress, even on a limited basis, pending conclusion of criminal proceedings,” Judge Cannon stressed. “In fact, there is not one instance of this happening until now.” The federal judge then chastised the DOJ for “misleadingly” referencing Special-Counsel David Weiss’s Congressional 2023 testimony as an example of “historical practice.” First, the DOJ opposed Congress’s request for Special Counsel Weiss to testify, Cannon noted. And second, when Weiss eventually agreed to testify “on limited matters,” he “repeatedly refusing to answer questions regarding ongoing litigation in order to prevent prejudice to ‘the rights of defendants or other individuals involved in these matters.’”

[CFW]

Good article by Margot Cleveland regarding the Trump Special Counsel's misleading Court filings (a/k/a continuing lies).

I want to see every DOJ attorney that participated in this corrupt farce both disbarred and jailed.

[Beowulf9]

Time to clean out the DOJ.

[bray]

Its filled with dirty lawyers.

[Beowulf9]

Disband the DOJ completely.

[Raycpa]

Can headlines get anymore ridiculous?

I know, I know, its a rhetorical question.

[kiryandil]

Remember how government stooges ALWAYS deflect questions with "ongoing investigation!"?

I guess that's only if they can't use the information against their political enemies...

[Dave911]

Love this judge! She’s got guts.

[cuz1961]

[lurk]

The case was killed by Judge Cannon, so these reports are just last-shot yo mama digs on the way out. To which Trump would have no chance at cross exam.