Someday, someone will write an updated History of American Jurisprudence. This will be the frontispiece.
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Someday, someone will write an updated History of American Jurisprudence. This will be the frontispiece.
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The Justice Department on Thursday appealed a court-ordered special master review of the materials seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago — including more than 100 classified documents — as it argued the order was putting US national security at risk.
The government has halted the intelligence community’s risk assessment of classified documents it obtained during last month’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home and resort.
In addition to its appeal, the Justice Department asked US District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump appointee who ordered the special master, to let it continue the review of documents being done for the FBI’s criminal probe — a review the judge put on hold. The prosecutors argued that the criminal probe could not be decoupled from the intelligence community’s review. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/politics/mar-a-lago-special-master-justice-department/index.html
“…Judge Cannon took several steps that specialists said were vulnerable to being overturned if the government files an appeal, as most agreed was likely. Any appeal would be heard by the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta, where Mr. Trump appointed six of its 11 active judges.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/05/us/trump-special-master-aileen-cannon.html
…and if the Justice Department loses in Atlanta, it could appeal to the Supreme Court, where three Justices appointed by Trump are part of the five-member conservative majority that rules the roost.
What Will It Take to Stymie Right-Wing Supervillain Leonard Leo?
With the help of $1.6 billion, the man who helped engineer the conservative takeover of the courts is about to wreak serious havoc. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dark-money-windfall/
(9/15/22): 3 takeaways from that Trump judge’s latest order in the Mar-a-Lago case : Judge Aileen Cannon’s latest order shows a disregard for established law. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/9/15/23355813/trump-judge-aileen-cannon-special-master-order-justice-department
“…As the Supreme Court held in Department of the Navy v. Egan (1988), “For ‘reasons . . . too obvious to call for enlarged discussion,’” determinations about who should be allowed to see classified documents “must be committed to the broad discretion of the agency responsible, and this must include broad discretion to determine who may have access to it.”
(9/16/22): 4 key points from Judge Cannon’s latest controversial Trump decision https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/16/cannon-special-master-dearie-ruling/
For the second time in two weeks, a federal judge nominated to the bench by President Donald Trump has issued a ruling in Trump’s favor that has flabbergasted many legal experts [4 key points follow].
Also:
“George Conway perfectly summed up Judge Cannon’s ruling: a crock of shit. This judge is so out of her league. George is correct is saying what he has never said publicly: she should not be on a federal bench! This is the work of Leo Leonard, and Mitchell McConnell!” John W. Dean, former Nixon White House Counsel
The Trump-appointed judge delivers the goods for her patron https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/18/aileen-cannon-trump-special-master-ruling/