The Trump judge ruling on the Mar-a-Lago affair is defying established law

[Nevilledog]

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Judge Cannon’s rulings in the Mar-a-Lago affair teach how a young and ideologically-driven judge can badly bungle important legal issues, endanger national security, and profoundly distort the proper role of courts. Philip Lacovara and I explain here:

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The Trump judge ruling on the Mar-a-Lago affair is defying established law | Laurence H Tribe and...
Why is a young, ideologically-driven judge with a lifetime appointment to the bench allowed to ignore legal precedents?
8:29 AM · Sep 19, 2022

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Judge Aileen Cannon’s two rulings in the Mar-a-Lago affair offer a master class in illustrating how a young and ideologically-driven judge can badly bungle important issues of law and public policy and distort the proper role of courts in protecting state secrets and supervising criminal investigations. The Justice Department, wisely, is appealing.

The catalogue of errors and abuses is too long for a single column, so we touch only on the low points.

It is important to note that Judge Cannon received her appointment when she barely passed the American Bar Association’s minimum length of experience following law school graduation to be considered even minimally “qualified” for the federal bench.

More significantly, she appears to owe her appointment to her membership in the Federalist Society, the virtually exclusive source of Trump’s judicial selections.

Her approach to this dispute between the United States government and the former president has been shaped by a strange blend of the Federalist Society’s ideological influence on her career and a MAGA-cult-like belief that the former president should enjoy almost royal prerogatives.

It was no surprise, therefore, that Trump’s lawyers carefully shopped for her when they chose to file their unprecedented application in her remote courthouse in Fort Pierce, Florida, rather than the one down the street in West Palm beach.

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[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. I'd like to see proof (1) that she graduated, (2) after actually attending law school.

She showed no indication of having read the cases cited before ruling, and she certainly didn't rely on them.

[EndlessWire]

2. She announced her decision

before the Government had even filed reply papers. That was absurd.

[Nevilledog]

3. I'd like to know when she became a citizen. She's from Colombia.

[PCIntern]

4. Long form birth certificate please

And I’m not believing it when it’s shown. I’ve decided a priori. Case closed.

That’s what occurs when you administer by ideology not by facts.

[Nevilledog]

5. I'm interested in the timing, not that she's a naturalized citizen.

We have assumed she's beholden to The Federalist Society because she's a member. I'd like to know the circumstances surrounding her citizenship to see if she's beholden to anyone else.

[PCIntern]

6. I want to see all of her documents knowing in advance

that they’re forged

When the shoe is on the other foot, they get really upset.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Because she elevated trump above all other citizens, and pre-judged, she may be compromised.

She ruled from the courthouse steps before hearing from both sides, she gave a former president extra consideration for "equitable" purposes (how does that work?), she ignored the law and precedent on ownership and access and classification and privilege, she "abdicated" the primary responsibility of the judiciary (from the proposed amici brief before the 11th, resolving conflicts according to case law), she manufactured a dispute that she then didn't resolve, in order to coddle the requests of the one who appointed her.

What does he hold over her?

[BlueTsunami2018]

8. That's why she's there.

That’s why all the bloggers and other unqualified assholes were put there. Not necessarily to help Piss Wig but to undermine the country and its institutions.

We’re in big trouble. This isn’t going away anytime soon and time is on their side.