It Turns Out There Are "Trump Judges" After All

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Aileen Cannon observed that the Presidential Records Act gives exclusive jurisdiction to the District of Columbia’s federal district court to hear presidential records-related disputes—and then went on to exercise jurisdiction in Trump’s case anyway.

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It Turns Out There Are “Trump Judges” After All
Judge Aileen Cannon, whom Trump tapped for the federal bench in 2020, threw out the rules to boost his flimsy legal defense.
9:26 PM · Sep 7, 2022

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Donald Trump is a very special guy. That is the essence of the legal ruling handed down by Judge Aileen Cannon over the Labor Day weekend. Cannon, who was appointed to a federal district court judgeship in Florida in 2020 by—you guessed it—former President Donald Trump, ordered the use of a special master to review documents seized by the Justice Department from Mar-a-Lago last month. She also barred federal investigators from “[using] the seized materials for investigative purposes,” which may halt prosecutors’ work for the time being.

This is not how things normally work. If federal agents had found a similar trove of national secrets in the home of anyone else in America, that person would be figuratively strapped to a rocket and fired into the sun. If that person then asked a federal judge to effectively suspend a Justice Department investigation into their apparently illegal conduct, they would be laughed out of court. But Donald Trump is not a normal American who falls under the normal rule of law. He is special. He is different.

I’ve written before how Trump has had trouble finding high-quality lawyers for his many legal troubles, especially recently. I failed to consider how little that matters if he finds a judge who will do the heavy lifting for him. The motion that Trump initially filed to Cannon two weeks ago did not meet basic thresholds for legal argumentation; Cannon obliquely noted in her order on Monday that she had “ordered [Trump] to elaborate on the basis for the Court’s jurisdiction and the relief sought,” which is a polite way of telling him and his lawyers to actually make an intelligible argument for her to rule upon.

Trump faced a few obstacles from the start. For one, there was already a federal magistrate judge assigned to this case. Rather than make his long-shot argument to him, however, Trump shopped around for a more friendly judge to hear it. He chose to file his motion challenging the search before the Fort Pierce division of the Southern District of Florida, which conveniently only had a single federal judge assigned to it: Judge Aileen Cannon. As The Daily Beast’s Jose Pagliery noted on Tuesday, Trump had previously tried—and been reprimanded for trying—to engineer cases to appear before this specific judge.

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[Brainfodder]

1. Remember, the desperation button has already been pressed!

Wild rides usually end in a crash.

[UTUSN]

2. I long for the days we believed Liberty was blind.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Liberty was never blind, but Justice is supposed to be...

[UTUSN]

7. Supposed to be ideally not-CORRUPT. Roy COHN taught Drumpf to shop judges.

So frail human nature prevails over ideal Justice. Tim RUSSERT, supposedly a Dem, said, "Idealism is for schmucks."

[JohnnyRingo]

3. It's about trying to engineer the law around DJT.

Most criminal cases are about proving the suspect didn't break the law.

But in this case it's like "here's what laws Trump broke, now figure out how we can make it legal."

[dalton99a]

5. .

[Wrestlefire769]

6. This is why people like Trump believe they are above all law.

Because they have the protection of those who are trying to ensure that the entire system comes down and they are the only ones left to rule.

Hence, we are at the point where the ultimate crime in American law and the ultimate punishment must be considered, and it is clear that even trying to go there is going to be stopped at all cost from people who similarly are in aid and comfort to the enemies of our nation.