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To: SamAdams76
I skimmed through it and it does not appear it is very sympathetic to the government in this case. Some of the footnotes in fact were scathing.

See p. 10 of the document where the judge outlines the potential damage to Trump and his reputation if the relief requested is not granted. I quote partially from her reasoning (BOLD is my emphasis):

Further, Plaintiff is at risk of suffering injury from the Government’s retention and potential use of privileged materials in the course of a process that, thus far, has been closed off to Plaintiff and that has raised at least some concerns as to its efficacy, even if inadvertently so... Finally, Plaintiff has claimed injury from the threat of future prosecution and the serious, often indelible stigma associated therewith. As the Richey court wrote, “a wrongful indictment is no laughing matter; it often works a grievous, irreparable injury to the person indicted. The stigma cannot be easily erased. In the public mind, the blot on a man’s escutcheon, resulting from such a public accusation of wrongdoing, is seldom wiped out by a subsequent judgment of not guilty. Frequently, the public remembers the accusation, and still suspects guilt, even after an acquittal.” ... As a function of Plaintiff’s former position as President of the United States, the stigma associated with the subject seizure is in a league of its own. A future indictment, based to any degree on property that ought to be returned, would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude.

76 posted on 09/05/2022 10:21:26 AM PDT by CedarDave (Pfizer's boosters: You just turned your immune system's functionality into a subscription service!)
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To: CedarDave

“””See p. 10 of the document where the judge outlines the potential damage to Trump and his reputation if the relief requested is not granted”””


Yes, the judge was very clear regarding the DOJ damaging Trump’s reputation. It is too bad the Biden Crime Family cannot be sued for slander.


87 posted on 09/05/2022 10:26:42 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: CedarDave
Yes, I caught that footnote as well.

Nobody reading that 24-page court document can come away from it thinking that the appointment of a special master in this case was granted in a begrudging "check the box" sort of way. The entire decision appears to be rooted in the belief that President Trump was done a great injustice with the way the search and seizure of his property was handled by the government.

89 posted on 09/05/2022 10:28:15 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (4,022,059 users on Truth Social)
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