The Trump judge ruling on the Mar-a-Lago affair is defying established law The Guardian
Why is a young, ideologically-driven judge with a lifetime appointment to the bench allowed to ignore legal precedents?
Laurence H Tribe and Phillip Allen Lacovara
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Mon 19 Sep 2022 09.00 EDT
"Judge Aileen Cannons 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."
"It is important to note that Judge Cannon received her appointment when she barely passed the American Bar Associations 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 Trumps 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 Societys 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 Trumps 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.
"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/19/the-trump-judge-ruling-on-the-mar-a-lago-affair-is-defying-established-law
KS Toronado
(17,306 posts)to find the MAGAt Loose Cannon Judge.
tanyev
(42,600 posts)And I wouldn't be surprised if she's getting some guidance from the Federalist Society or other Trump lackeys in how to do it.