"Don't assume that Judge Cannon, if she presides over the trial, will be constrained by fear of ..."

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Michael Beschloss Retweeted

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is right: Cannon’s reputation is already ruined except with Trumpers and the MAGA crowd, so playing to them to become “Associate Justice Aileen Cannon” in a GOP administration is her likeliest path. I’d love to be proved wrong, but don’t count on it. 28 USC Sec 455!

Don't assume that Judge Cannon, if she presides over the trial, will be constrained by fear of tarnishing her judicial reputation. It is not impossible that she might opt to show even more favoritism and corner-cutting that benefits Trump and makes her a national Trumpist hero.

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1. The BORK deadend gave us SCALIA and Clarence.

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2. She has nothing to fear

she's in a lifetime appointment, so she's there as long as she wants to be.

She can put her thumb on the scale for Trump and be rewarded by the entire Republican apparatus, because it isn't about him.

It is about all of them knowing for certain that no matter what they do, no matter how outrageously criminal their behavior and actions, they will get away with it, because the courts belong to them.

That's what's at stake here. If that orange man gets away with this, there is no fear of the law or the courts, because nothing they do matters. They will have managed to make the laws apply only to their perceived enemies.