Judge Cannon asks about legality of using DC grand jury in Florida-based Mar-a-Lago case | CNN Politics
Judge Cannon asks about legality of using DC grand jury in Florida-based Mar-a-Lago case | CNN Politics
Judge Aileen Cannon is asking the Justice Department and Donald Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta to weigh in on the legality of special counsel Jack Smith’s ongoing grand jury activity in Washington, DC, which relates to the obstruction portion of the Mar-a-Lago documents case before her in Florida.
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If she dismisses because it has to be filed in DC...they can just file in DC, get a more favorable judge, and have a great reason for why the court must reject Trump's inevitable change of venue request.
Florida was only picked to avoid change-of-venue requests. It's not like there is nowhere to legally charge this case.
If she dismisses because it has to be filed in DC…they can just file in DC, get a more favorable judge, and have a great reason for why the court must reject Trump’s inevitable change of venue request.
But that would virtually guarantee that the case would be pushed out until 2025 at the earliest, which is exactly what Trump wants. He wants to draw this out until he either gets re-elected and just has the cases dismissed, or he just dies without having ever been found guilty. And considering he's 77 years old and thinks the four basic food groups are McDonalds, Burger King, Wendys, and Dunkin Donuts, the odds of him getting what he wants are pretty heavily in his favor and only increase with every frivilous delay tactic.
If she dismisses with prejudice that means the case cannot be re-filed. I'm not sure if that's something she's able to do in this case, but that would effectively kill the case completely.
Edit: I am by no means a... law... talking... guy, so it's good to hear from multiple replies that this is most likely not an out for Tr(eason)ump.
You can't dismiss with prejudice because of a simple jurisdictional issue like that. "You should have filed it somewhere else, but now you can't file it anywhere". Prejudice means that the case has no merit and saying you should have filed it somewhere else indicates it is possibly meritorious.
I don’t think the appeals court will let that stand.
Yeah, dismissing with prejudice would get reversed immediately.
If she has the authority to do so, there's nothing that an appeals court can do about it. Once a case is dismissed, that's the end of it.
You can appeal a dismissal just like any other final judgement.
Even if she did it wouldn't stick on appeal and it would only affect the new charges. The original indictment was from a grand jury in Miami.