Trump documents case dismissed by federal judge

"The main benefit of controlling a modern bureaucratic state is not the power to persecute the innocent. It is the power to protect the guilty." - David Frum

I have a friend who had a case before Cannon and told me that she was both one of the stupidest and the meanest judges she's ever dealt with, which is saying something since she practices primarily in Florida. As a representative of the caliber of judges the Federalist Society has to offer, Cannon is pretty damning... and if we get four more years of Trump, the federal bench is going to be stacked with jurists even worse than her.

We are dangerously close to an emperor has no clothes moment in regards to the rule of law. When people digest that the law is whatever it needs to be to suit the needs of the moment, they'll operate as if there is no law and they'll be right. I fear we are already past the point of no return.

All for Donald fucking Trump.

Cheetoh Mussolini

I was wondering how much this Trump fuckery is going to effect legal precedent since precedent seems to matter quite a lot in the legal system. Or do you think most judges are going to straight up just say Trump gets more legal rights so precedent set by him doesn't matter?

So much for the legitimacy of our courts and laws

It's almost like Clarence Thomas is acting in the best interests of a foreign power trying to attack and ruin our country

the law is what you make it.

Did you thought law was somehow divine before? Laws were always made to serve those who rule since their inception.

If you spent half a million dollars for a degree a have a bridge to sell you

This is less a "free pass" so much as all things going to plan.

Cannon is a trump appointed croney who has been delaying the trial and doing everything in her power to protect trump. And now the supreme court gave them an out and she instantly took it.

This is literally what republicans have been working toward for decades. Immunity by corrupting the government at every level.

Honestly for a long time I was really hopeful that the fact that he was doing it out in the open and everyone could see that he was abusing the hell out of every little loophole he could find, and creating some new ones, would mean that we'd start closing those loopholes when he was out of office and we might even see an era of reform.
He's been out of office for 4 years and all the courts have managed to do is LEGALIZE HIS MISCONDUCT! I feel like I'm finally starting to except our collective fate and now there's nothing left to do but watch it burn down around us.

Most governments around the world and their politicians regularly get away with even war crimes. This isn't anything new.

The "liberal media" is not "tripping over themselves to talk about this like it's some complicated issue".

The Washington Post called bullshit:

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s ruling is a remarkable win for Trump, whose lawyers have thrown longshot argument after longshot argument to dismiss the case. Other courts have rejected similar arguments to the one that he made in Florida about the legality of Smith’s appointment.

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Cannon’s decision comes as Trump is preparing to be formally nominated as the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election, with the Republican National Convention beginning in Milwaukee on Monday.

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The legal theory that Smith was illegally appointed and funded has generally been considered far-fetched. Trump’s legal team didn’t adopt the argument in court until conservative legal groups pushed it.

This is as far as they can go in saying that "this decision is unhinged" while still maintaining their aura of objectivity. They're not going to do it explicitly in the main article, that will come in the opinion pieces that will be released in a few hours, surely

This sounds like a constitutional question for the Supreme Court, right?

Its all good, now they can have her removed from the case

That was so Republicans could go after Democrats. It's totally different now that Daddy Trump is being held accountable for his crimes.

Because fascism.

It isn't. The framers of the constitution believed that judges would put the letter of the law ahead of their own personal convictions and conduct themselves honorably by recusing themselves from cases where there could be even a hint of impropriety or conflict of interest. I'm sure they also assumed that a judge who ignored those social norms and committed such a nakedly partisan act would be held to account by Congress, who would have a collectively vested interest is using their constitutional power as a check against the Judicial.

Unfortunately, we live in a timeline where loyalty to one's political party comes ahead of all else, and Congress would rather cede their ability to govern entirely than turn against "one of their own". Even if the result is objectively bad for everyone. The failure of the framers to codify these rules are exactly why we are in this situation today, and nothing short of a constitutional convention will fix it at this point.

The prosecutor chose that judge

Yes, and even easier for SCOTUS to over-overturn.

One would think, yes.

Seventh months later......

Nope. She just said it was ok for trump. Rules for thee.

War Thunder players are going to be so stoked!

This gave Jack Smith the ability to take this and appeal it, which he previously could not do because she refused to publish actual orders ever since Smith appealed a previous bad decision by her and won.

There is simply no way Smith loses this appeal, it will end up in the Supreme Court and that is where the final nail will fall for this case.

Furthermore, she had a FUCK TON of things to make a decision on that were key to the case, thus when she is removed those decisions can still be made instead of the next judge inheriting her bullshit. There is still hope, which is pathetic that we need any but it is what it is.

You know what they say...

The good die young; assholes live forever.

teflon smuck

"IrONiCAllY". dude. if you haven't been paying even the slightest attention, the fix is in for Trump alone, it does not translate to anyone else, for anything else. jfc.

If push comes to shove your passport is only the first step. You would need to actually find a country to take you, and countries don't hand out citizenship like candy unless you're rich. Without a second citizenship, you would be very restricted in where you can work.

Your best bet is if your parents or grandparents came from abroad, some countries have blanket policies to have 1st or 2nd generations come back to their ancestral homeland. It very much varies by country, you would have to do your own research. It might be worth doing as a last resort.

You and me both.

Run for local or state office.

An ex-used car salesman. He's doing 5-15 in Rikers protective custody for raping a minor.

He kinda is in this universe...

People are picking sides. If you believe trump will win, and you're a coward, and you know that he will go on a reign of terror after inauguration then it makes sense to get in line as soon as possible. Last in line are first against the wall after all. And there will be people against the wall. Mark my words.

Pelosi, Obama, Biden and his family, shumer, aoc, and Cohen will be arrested for treason within weeks and executed. I know it sounds crazy but... ::gestures vaguely at everything::

Well, we have a lot less faith today thanks to Eileen Cannon and the majority of the rigged SCOTUS.

Considering how much Team Trump has dismantled already, it is very rational to think these thoughts.

Should.

Supreme Court will get around to this right away I'm sure. Like, next June. Super fast.

And then reversed again when the Extreme Court gets a hold of it. It must be nice to have your criminal cases decided by justices you've appointed.

Taking shots at him won’t fix anything. He’s just a demagogue figure head for the movement created by billionaires and their foundations. If people want to fix America, we need billionaires cowering in fear. They are so bold in their corruptions because they get away with it.

He's had several good weeks on the trot.

Hopefully he can't dodge two attemps. Attempts to be held resposible of course. No other meaning.

Slippery greasy fuck. It would be pretty easy for me to believe that God sent him here as the most blatantly obvious punishment to mankind he could come up with. Like if God came out of the sky smacking his head and saying, "you dumb mother fuckers, why are you still denying my existence? Do you think this useless blob has risen to these ranks and can avoid all logical consequences of gross negligence and evildoing on his own accord? Beelzebub himself had it harder than this guy and was 500x more clever!" I'd have to look at him and say, yeah man, you've got a good point going there. Sorry about that, could you maybe stop it now though?

I wish more political commentators would wrestle with this fact. I understand the need to remain calm and denounce violence, and we should certainly do that! But at the same time, the discussion needs to be had about what to do when all the other options are exhausted. And as you've already outlined, we're running out of options. Basically everything hinges on the vote in November, and I'm under no illusion that Trump and the GQP and SCQTUS will steal it if it's any closer than it was last time. Then what?

Do you own any firearms?

It's even worse than that, it had nothing to do with Thomas or SC. She claims the AG has no constitutional authority to appoint a special counsel.

Except hold a glass of water with one hand. Or walk down a gentle slope unassisted.

americans will still firmly believe "it'll never happen in this country" even as roving bands of newly deputized trump gestapo squads are going door to door demanding to know where your loyalties lie

obviously expose the cracks in the American constitution

out of curiosity, what exactly did he do to "obviously expose the cracks in the American constitution".

Court is on recess until October at this point, and even when they're back in session, the Court holds off on announcing rulings until June, that's standard practice.

"Corrupt trump-appointed judge dismisses slam dunk trump case"

when if that idiot gets in there is potential threats to every other country

;)

It's actually not. The more worrying proposition was that she waited for a jury to be seated -- attaching jeopardy -- and then dismissing the charges with prejudice.

This certainly pushes it way past the election, but that seemed a certainty anyway.

The process goes district court -> appeals court -> Supreme Court. Cannon is a district (trial) Court judge; if Smith chooses to appeal the dismissal (which he will because her dismissal reasoning is dogshit) it will go to the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. After the appeals court rules on the procedure used in the trial court (with NO NEW ARGUEMENTS!), then either party could choose to make a final appeal to the Supreme court- and we all know what they will rule on. However the Supreme Court is not obligated to take on cases referred from an appellate court. And nowhere in this process can they refer to a new trial judge.

So I read more, in the end...