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This filing was not a lawsuit but was more of a press release. The judge is being kind to TFG and his idiot lawyers
Link to tweet
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/politics/trump-special-master-deadline/index.html
District Court Judge Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida ordered Trump's lawyers to elaborate on their arguments for why the court has the ability to step in at this time, explain what exactly Trump is asking for and whether the Justice Department has been served with Trump's special master motion.
Cannon also asked Trump's team to weigh in on any effect the request might have on a separate review conducted by a magistrate judge into whether any portions of the still-sealed FBI affidavit laying out probable cause for the search can be released.
The judge's order showcases many of the ways that the complaint filed by Trump fell short of what would have been expected of a court submission asking for the appointment of a special master-- particularly in a search as high-stakes as the one FBI executed at Mar-a-Lago earlier this month
"What's she saying is, 'What are you doing in front of me?'" Mark Schnapp, a criminal defense lawyer in Florida who spent seven years working for the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida, told CNN.
emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)Just_Vote_Dem
(2,808 posts)Couldn't she have just denied the ridiculous motion?
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Lock this mother fucker up and throw away the key.
DET
(1,315 posts)The judge is allegedly extremely conservative and is a Trump appointee.
gab13by13
(21,349 posts)Trump should have appealed to the magistrate judge who was hearing his case. Trump just went out and picked one of his judges to make his request. This judge has no business hearing his request, she doesn't have jurisdiction.
No one makes Trump follow rules though.
DET
(1,315 posts)How can this judge entertain his request if she doesnt have jurisdiction?
Hotler
(11,425 posts)fierywoman
(7,684 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,288 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)Hugin
(33,148 posts)I dont see a public defender getting the same deference on a case involving almost anyone else.
Hugin
(33,148 posts)Whats different is he has very little public left to opinion-ate. Almost no venues to work through and people have grown weary of him and his antics.
It is no coincidence that lawyers who cant hack it in court end up in PR and his latest offerings have never been in court. Including, unfortunately, most of his SCrOTUS for-life installations.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,180 posts)Maybe he's planning to put it on the market, and you gotta start somewhere.
Hugin
(33,148 posts)Like how they plagiarized any number of speeches over the years.
Yknow cut/paste until your copious gut screams, File that sucker!
I know thats how I would write a filing.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,288 posts)Legally, TFG has in effect just confessed to violations of the espionage act. TFG's amusing filing for a special master is based on the sad claim that these documents are protected by executive privilege. That claim is wrong but if these documents were protected by executive privilege, then such documents are clearly government property and TFG has no right to possess these documents. TFG has in effect confessed to a crime in this brief
Link to tweet
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/trump-illegal-documents-fbi-mar-a-lago
But the argument from Trump that the documents are subject to executive privilege protections suggests those documents are official records which he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration.
But the argument from Trump that the documents are subject to executive privilege protections suggests those documents are official records which he is not authorized to keep and should have turned over to the National Archives at the end of the administration....
The reasoning, former US attorneys say, is that there could be communications seized by the FBI that are privileged, but not used in furtherance of a crime, and even if the justice department wanted to use them in its investigation, it should be precluded from doing so.
Still, if Trump successfully argues the materials are protected by executive privilege, then he also successfully argues that he was in unlawful possession of official records. If he is unsuccessful, then executive privilege would not be a valid basis to seek a special master.
The motion for a special master was truly a crappy piece of legal work. TFG has clearly confessed to breaking the law if one accepts the premise of this motion