Posted on 03/19/2024 5:20:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
The MAGA-friendly federal judge who keeps siding with Donald Trump in his Mar-a-Lago classified records case has forced prosecutors to make a stark choice: allow jurors to see a huge trove of national secrets or let him go.
U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ultimatum Monday night came as a surprise twist in what could have been a simple order; one merely asking federal prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers for proposed jury instructions at the upcoming trial.
But as she has done repeatedly, Cannon used this otherwise innocuous legal step as yet another way to swing the case wildly in favor of the man who appointed her while he was president.
Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith must now choose whether to allow jurors at the upcoming criminal trial to peruse the many classified records found at the former president’s South Florida mansion or give jurors instructions that would effectively order them to acquit him.
Alternatively, Smith could appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, where more experienced judges have already overturned Cannon and reined her in. But doing that will only further delay a trial that’s at least three months behind schedule, entirely by the judge’s own design. (She froze the investigation and tried to slow-roll document review until the appellate court forced her to stop.)
Trump and two lackeys were indicted last year for hoarding classified documents at the South Florida oceanside mansion, which doubles as a social club that’s become a mandatory stop for aspiring Republican politicians. Trump is fighting off 39 felony counts for keeping national defense information without authorization and trying to cover it up.
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Not just Presidents—if I were on the jury I would want to know exactly what Hillary had on her home brew server that led to no indictment.
Ditto for Biden as Senator and Vice President.
I would want a full understanding not just of what the law says but how it is been applied in the real world.
All that is true. But the point of the case was to waste Trump’s time/resources and help fools/Democrats convince themselves that Orange Man Bad. Smith’s game now will be keeping the case alive and in the news until the election.
I do believe the Judge is using this ruling to eventually toss the case. She knows this is nonsense.
thanks
bkmk
He is correct. Our defamation laws need to tighten up in the direction of Britains FA laws.
You cannot convict somebody of illegal possession of classified documents without showing that they really are classified documents. Psycho Jack Smith thinks he should be able to but he is a fascist communist apparatchik
Jose Paglieri should be ashamed of writing this tripe.
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