Saturday, September 17, 2022

Cannon Fire!

Security increased for controversial judge.

Be warned, the noise from Washed Up 45 is controversial. Take discretion.

Ignore the noise.

Vote.

U.S. District Judge Alieen Cannon has U.S. Marshals watching her now that she became the news. She made a controversial decision to delay the U.S. Justice Department's investigation into classified documents being mishandled and the failure to return them to the National Archives. The Justice Department is planning on opening a criminal investigation into Washed Up 45.

Cannon, a federal judge appointed by the former president has decided to temporarily halt the FBI's search into whether the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort was improperly secured and the National Archives were misled by the former president when he claimed that all documents were returned.

Cannon heard the case of Trump v. United States. She gave him some breathing room by ruling an appointment a special master to review the materials seized from Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. 

Cannon signaled she was inclined to grant the motion; two days later the Justice Department told Cannon it had completed its review of materials that may fall under attorney–client privilege. She granted Washed Up 45's request on September 5. 

The decision was widely criticized, including by legal scholars from across the political spectrum, a Bush administration Homeland Security official, and former prosecutors.

Feds are not playing games. They want their property.

Among her most notable critics was Washed Up 45's former Attorney General Karen Barr, who went on Fox twice within a week to criticize Cannon's opinion.

Cannon on Thursday denied the Department of Justice's request for a partial stay of her ruling that limited the government's investigation of how Washed Up 45 handled sensitive material at his Mar-a-Lago estate, pending a third-party review of what agents found at Trump's home.

Cannon, in issuing her order, said that she was not willing to accept the government's assertions that roughly 100 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago were classified -- even though they were labeled as such, with some bearing "SECRET" and "TOP SECRET/SCI" markings.

Cannon appointed Raymond Dearie, senior district judge for the Eastern District of New York, as special master to help her resolve the matter. (Earlier this week, the DOJ wrote in court papers that it did not object to to Dearie, who was suggested by the former president's legal team.)

"The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government’s conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion," Cannon wrote in her order.

In her rulings, Cannon is giving Washed Up 45 an opportunity to assert both attorney-client and executive privilege, though his lawyers have not officially sought to assert either in court.

"The Court declines to conduct a subset-by-subset, piecemeal analysis of the seized property," Cannon wrote, in part, adding, "Indeed, if the Court were willing to accept the Government’s representations that select portions of the seized materials are—without exception—government property not subject to any privileges, and did not think a special master would serve a meaningful purpose, the Court would have denied Plaintiff’s special master request."

In appointing Dearie as special master, Cannon urged him to "prioritize review" of the roughly 100 documents with classification markings and asked him to complete his review of all the documents by Nov. 30, more than a month beyond what the DOJ had called for.

Warns violence if he is indicted.

Her order further directs Dearie that he will make recommendations to her regarding any assertions of executive privilege by Washed Up 45, though he hasn't officially made any.

Many legal scholars question whether a former government official, even a president, can claim privilege over classified documents once they are no longer in office -- and over the determination made by the current president, in this case Joe Biden.

Biden has not granted Washed Up 45 executive privilege. He said he will not get involved in any of the Justice Department's investigations.

The Department of Justice is expected to appeal this ruling. They are citing that the decision impedes on the federal government's duty to obtain its properly and is an unprecedented move to give a former president's lawyers access to documents that the country claims viewing is a high security risk.

The former president and his allies [namely Sucker Tucker and Softball Hannity] revert back to Hillary Clinton.

The former president continues to bring her name up in conversation.

She had said every time he gets caught up in these situations, the former president and Fox keeps bringing her name out. She said that are close to be malicious in their attacks.

The hope that Washed Up 45 could face criminal charges is high on the left's radar.

I strongly believe he will continue to delay this until he intends on declaring his run for president in 2023. He will do it only to make the case that the federal government is trying to stop him and his supporters.

He even went as far to issue a threat.

"I think, if it happened, you'd have problems in this country the likes of which, perhaps, you have ever seen before," said Washed Up 45. "I don't think the people of the United States would stand for it."

When the far right agitator asked the former president to elaborate, he said, "Big problems."

"I just don't think they'd stand for it," he added. "They will not sit still and stand for this ultimate of hoaxes."

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