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Judge orders Trump not to release evidence in documents case
NY Post ^
| 06/19/2023
| Ronny Reyes
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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; evidence; interesting; judge; kangaroocourt; release; showtrial; trump
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Interesting
To: ChicagoConservative27
Judge
I will not have facts released in MY court room I have friends in D.C. .
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:18:25 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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?
To: ChicagoConservative27
What else can the judge due on this? Seriously, if these are or were classified government documents, as opposed to personal documents, seems like they should be kept underwraps. Otherwise, if one of the documents is, as alleged, DoD attack plan against Iran, should it be released by Trump or anyone? Purportedly, Trump apparently said he didn't declassify it, yet he still had it. I'd love to hear an explanation on that and how he thinks that document is a personal presidential paper.
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:26:57 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
I wonder if that holds any more power than releasing the preliminary Abortion rulings by the supreme court judges?
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:28:53 AM PDT
by
Skywise
To: ChicagoConservative27
But if he leaks it to a buddy at Columbia University, who then provides it to the press, that’s ok.
To: TallahasseeConservative
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:30:29 AM PDT
by
gibsonguy
(F)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:32:30 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: ChicagoConservative27
>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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:34:43 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:35:52 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: gibsonguy
Thanks. Thought that was weird.
To: All
Makes sense seeing as the government is pretending that the documents are classified.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:36:21 AM PDT
by
escapefromboston
(Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
So how does he even defend himself?
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:37:05 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: TallahasseeConservative
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
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:38:17 AM PDT
by
jpp113
To: Bratch
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:38:37 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: ChicagoConservative27
““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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:40:49 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: for-q-clinton
"So how does he even defend himself?" 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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:41:40 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:45:16 AM PDT
by
Revel
To: for-q-clinton
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.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:46:10 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Donald Tantrum? No Thank You. We Can Do Better! I am a Veteran Supporting Veteran DeSantis.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
* Controlling the Explanations.
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posted on
06/19/2023 10:46:50 AM PDT
by
Varsity Flight
( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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