NEW: Tonight, concerned that Trump's escalating rhetoric..the Special Counsel's office is asking

[riversedge]

NEW: Tonight, concerned that Trump’s escalating rhetoric about the standard instructions attached to the MAL search warrant will result in violence against law enforcement, the Special Counsel’s office is asking not for a gag order, but to modify Trump’s conditions of release. 1/

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That matters because when Trump was first indicted, his bond — which he signed —
made clear that his continued release was conditioned on his compliance with certain terms. 2/

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For example, Trump’s order not only prohibits him from violating any federal, state or local law while on release
but also precludes his speaking to any fact witnesses on a list shared with his lawyers
about the facts of the case, except through their respective lawyers.

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@lawofruby
But in asking to modify Trump’s conditions of release to prohibit his making statements that pose a “significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger” to law enforcement involved in the investigation and prosecution of the MAL case, the Special Counsel is upping the ante. 4/

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Lisa Rubin @lawofruby
Why? Because where a defendant violates a condition of his release, the consequences can include “the immediate issuance of a warrant for the defendant’s arrest, a revocation of release, and order of detention,” as well as a prosecution for contempt. 5/

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@lawofruby
But perhaps most importantly, if Judge Cannon denies this motion,
it is immediately appealable to the 11th Circuit under federal statute, which provides in relevant part:

https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3731

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**See LBN for article about the above:
Prosecutors Seek To Bar Trump In Classified Files Case From Statements Endangering Law Enforcement
The request follows a false claim by Trump earlier this week that the FBI agents who searched his home in August 2022 were “authorized to shoot me.”

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143245897

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Trump is a clear and present danger to democracy.

Stealing, Hoarding, Hiding hundreds of the nation’s most sensitive military secrets and he communicates in secret with our nation’s greatest adversary makes clear he should not be free to do more harm.

[meow2u3]

21. Trump is a clear and present danger. Period.

He must be stopped, even if it means he's forced to run for President from a jail cell.

[Mike Niendorff]

2. BOOM.

"But perhaps most importantly, if Judge Cannon denies this motion, it is immediately appealable to the 11th Circuit"

Ok, you've got my attention now.


MDN

[PatSeg]

6. Same here!

That's some smart lawyering. Cannon is out of her league.

[paleotn]

12. She has little to no reason for being on the bench.

She's woefully unqualified. I wonder who at Heritage Foundation floated her name for the federal bench? It's not some big conspiracy as no one could have foretold current events. Seems it was just a fuckup or Cannon had a buddy somewhere at Heritage.

[PatSeg]

16. Yes, it is pretty scary

that someone so unqualified could end up being a district court judge.

[Lonestarblue]

18. Maybe Heritage had already gotten most of their right-wing judges appointed and Cannon was in the bottom of the barrel.

[paleotn]

22. Possible. Who knows?

Maybe adding her name was actually someone's attempt at a joke. Then she actually got appointed. Oops.

[getagrip_already]

26. No joke, she was just in the right place....

Nobody wanted to work in that court, but she actually lived there. It a one judge ghost town.

McConnell was looking for anyone interested and her name popped up.

Her qualifications didn't matter. She supported trump.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

43. Apparently supporting Dolt 45 is the only

qualification necessary for Republican support for someone to fill any Republican position now. Maybe she got in under the new rules early.

Wait, did I say "supporting"? I meant "showing slavish devotion to."

[BComplex]

28. She's part of their religious cult.

That's the criteria the most powerful members of the Heritage Foundation use to pick a judge.

[calimary]

23. Yep. Quit going easy.

[wryter2000]

31. Yup

I bet she grants the request. Then the question is what happens when Trump violates the terms?

[intrepidity]

35. She'll just put it in the "to do" pile

No ruling, no appeal.

[Cartoonist]

3. Paper threats.

This has gotten old. Very old.

[Girard442]

7. Yeah. How about some 6-figure fines...or cuffs?

[riversedge]

17. This is Judge Cannon. I fear not much will happen -maybe not

even get to court?? if enough Dems do not vote. maybe maybe.

[birdographer]

20. Exactly

We are once again with him back to "I'll believe it when I see it." Bring out the skates.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Blah blah blah

[KS Toronado]

5. Lock him up, with him behind bars maybe the media will be honest with their reporting

Plus ole Smelvis is probably hoping to go there anyway so he can play the victim thinking his poll numbers would
go up. And don't allow any media in to talk to him and censor his letters to mail.

[Takket]

8. Smith has just put Cannon in a damn near impossible position

I don’t know how she can bullshit her way out of this.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

10. Clarence will coach her nt

[wryter2000]

32. Clarence isn't smart enough

It’s a wonder he can function at all without Scalia to tell him what to do.

[oasis]

34. Dummy Thomas must have

law clerks who work overtime and weekends.
He is disgracefully lightweight.

[intrepidity]

36. What if she just doesn't rule on it?

There's a whole stack of pending motions on her desk.

[wnylib]

39. She might just sit on it and do nohing, no denial of

the request and no approval of it.

What are Smith's options if she does that?

[dweller]

9. Good

✌🏻

[BoRaGard]

11. Republican traitors to America need a mega-dose of justice

[paleotn]

13. Throw his ass in jail.

[CanonRay]

14. Cannon won't deny the motion

She'll sit on it like she does everything else.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. So she either approves it and we're one step closer to Trump's arrest

or she denies it and it's appealed to 11th circuit who will want to know why she denied it and if she's competent or biased for denying it.

She's boxed in from what I can tell.

I wonder if this is in anticipation of what Trump will say on the Manhattan courthouse steps if he's convicted. Like 'stand by's over, CHARGE or you won't have a country anymore!!'

[jaxexpat]

19. So, the 11th Circuit Court is the answer, eh?

Why didn't someone mention that before? We could have used them ........often, then, since January 2017 through January 2021.

In the future, it would be helpful if they would just speak up a little sooner. But the good thing is that now we've got it all sorted out and seen to. Justice will just fire up the boilers and we should be under way shortly. Fais bon Voyage, everyone.

I feel so much better already. Nothing but blue sky and fair sailing as far as the eye can see. How about a refreshing beverage? Don't mind if I do. Such a good day to be alive.

[Martin68]

24. Every single iota of pressure on Trump is appreciated. He is not immune to pressure.

The cumulative effect of multiple avenues of investigation and calls for accounting on Trump are having, and will continue to have, a powerful effect on his state of mind. If he were a normal person, he'd withdraw a bit and watch his mouth. We all know he just can't do that. so he will continue to keep making things harder on himself.

[republianmushroom]

25. ...", if Judge Cannon denies this motion,"..., putting the puppet judge between a rock and a hard place.

GOOD !

[getagrip_already]

27. So she will hold a hearing, maybe in 4 weeks...

She will give tsf 2 weeks to file his response then Smith 2 weeks to respond to that.

She will hold a hearing, maybe delay it for some reason first, and maybe find one count of something, which she will set aside as a first offense, while admonishing Smith.

And she will do it in a way he can't appeal on.

[intrepidity]

38. Nailed it. nt

[littlemissmartypants]

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[Hekate]

30. Thank you for this post & the link to LBN

[wolfie001]

33. What about the RW organ grinders......

.....such as Fox News, OAN, NewsMax and others spewing disinformation that the Orange Menace wants spread far and wide? Blatant lies by the way.

[FakeNoose]

37. Here's an MSNBC article with more info and easier to read than Xwitter feeds

(I refuse to click on Xweets, so I try to find the info elsewhere)

Lisa Rubin is a lawyer and former prosecutor who consulted on this article, and it was just published yesterday around the same time the Xwitter feed dropped.

Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/prosecutors-ask-judge-aileen-cannon-block-trump-statements-endangering-rcna154028

"Prosecutors ask judge in classified documents case to block Trump from statements endangering law enforcement"

[Evolve Dammit]

42. Judge Cannon was allegedly selected "at random" from a group of 3 (4?) in that District. I'd like to hear more about

how that process was established in the first place, and what the specifics were in terms of "selecting" her for one of the most important cases in U.S. history?
We the People were not presented with that info that I recall?

[padah513]

44. I wonder how long Cannon will sit on the motion before she has to respond? A week? A month? Next year?

Thomas, Alito, Cannon... They do it right out in the open now.

[Takket]

45. Well, if you guessed "she'll just deny it", congrats. You were right.

I guess I was wrong about her being in an “impossible position” because I foolishly believed she might actually wrestle with her own morality on this issue.