On Friday, District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a new order in the Donald Trump classified documents case adding to the mountain of evidence that she is firmly in the former president’s pocket. Trump appointed Cannon in 2020 and the Senate confirmed her appointment in the days after he lost the 2020 election. It’s deeply offensive to the rule of law for judges to bend the law to benefit those who put them on the bench. Sadly, Cannon does just that.
Cannon’s new ruling rejected special counsel Jack Smith’s entirely standard request that she order Trump to state whether he intends to rely on an “advice of counsel” defense ahead of the trial, currently scheduled for May 20. Advance notice of the defense helps expedite a trial because defendants asserting it need to provide additional discovery to prosecutors—raising the defense means that defendants must disclose all communications with their attorneys, as the defense waives the attorney–client privilege.
Judge Cannon’s brief order asserted that Smith’s motion was “not amenable to proper consideration at this juncture, prior to at least partial resolution of pretrial motions” and further discovery.
Sound innocuous? It’s anything but. Instead, it’s part of a pattern we’ve already seen of Cannon laying the groundwork for delaying Trump’s trial—until it’s too late for a jury to be empaneled and the case tried to verdict before the election.
You’d be surprised how many lawyers & judges are republicans
It sounds absolutely batshit insane that judges can take sides and not be impartial when it comes to politics in the US.
I misread and thought that a Camera company was going against Trump.
My physical demeanor will change dramatically towards the powerful, wealthy, and forceful if Trump wins another term. I was very ragged through that entire term. And I will be much worse in dealing with it again.
But I refuse to abandon the US to Trump and his toadies and run off to another country.
There will be plenty to take care of here.
Advocating shooting lessons in the wake of a 2nd Trump term is a call to violence under rule 6. Removed. 24 hour ban.
Fortunately the rules allow for celebrating violence and advocating for nonviolent deaths. If you’re going to be pedantic about the exact meaning of your rules to stifle opposition, write better rules.
Ah yes, the idea that your pea shooter can deal with tanks and drones flown from under a mountain in Colorado. Nah, you’ll get blown up, they won’t find enough parts to identify you, and the world will turn onward.
Ah yes, the dumbass idea that the U.S. is able to take out insurgents the way it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, parroted robotically by some bootlicker any time anyone even so much as whispers the obvious solution to our problems
Fuck off, sycophant
I don’t own firearms. And I don’t appreciate shitheels implying that I do.
Not everyone with an agenda fills it with killing people to make the sex hot at home.
Because that is the pig game: they figured out how hot the sex is after beating someone or a kill.
And that is what they can’t give up. Their ultimate VIAGRA : Kill and fuck.
Addicted to killing and fucking is what a badge is all about.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-trainer-best-sex-killing/
LOL people actually downvoted you for saying that you don’t have or like guns.
You’re right.
If the fascists take over, it’s better to quietly sit on the sidelines and hope you’re not one of the targeted undesirables.
First they came for the trans people, and I did not act—
Because I was not trans.
Then they came for the gay people , and I did not act—
Because I was not gay.
Then they came for the immigrants, and I did not act—
Because I was not an immigrant.
Then they came for the women, and I did not act—
Because I was not a woman.
Then they came for the ”woke”, and I did not act—
Because I was not ”woke”.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to act for me.
Someone wants to be on the Supreme Court…too bad Trump doesn’t really reward loyalty.
