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More Sabotage Of The MAL Documents Case By "Judge" Aileen Cannon. [1]

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Date: 2024-06-03  

Another ongoing sabotage effort of the Mar-A-Lago documents by so called “Judge” Aileen Cannon got lost among the other news from last week. Cannon is allowing former Attorney General Michael Mukasey (of George W. Bush infamy) to add him as an amicus curie to a motion to declare Jack Smith’s appointment as special prosecutor as “illegal.” There are so many motions piling up on Cannon’s docket that I’ve lost track of which motion is which, but there is a Trump lawyer’s motion that claims Jack Smith’s appointment should have been approved by the U.S. Senate. There is already a Republican rouges gallery of those who want in on the action of this frivolous motion, and it is a frivolous motion.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Wednesday granted an unopposed motion to add Michael Mukasey, the 81st U.S. attorney general who served during George W. Bush’s presidency, as an amicus curiae...

I’m going to what Jack Smith has already filed with the court about this move by Trump’s lawyers.

Smith, for his part, fired back in March by calling the amici’s arguments “meritless” and doomed to fail, as they have in “every court.” “Neither Trump’s challenge nor the Meese Amicus’s additional theories are novel or meritorious; to the contrary, every court that has considered them has rejected them — including authoritative decisions by the Supreme Court,” the special counsel’s reply said. “And resolving the validity of the Special Counsel’s appointment would not lead to an accelerated appellate proceeding if Trump’s claim failed. Unlike with a non-frivolous immunity claim, Trump would have no right to an interlocutory appeal should the Court deny his Appointments Clause challenge.” Smith is not wrong about the past rejections of these theories, as a perusal of court rulings from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation shows.

Even the fuckin’ corrupt SCOTUS has ruled that a special counsel is an INFERIOR OFFICER to the Attorney General of the United States. Given that the Attorney General appoints and is the special counsel’s boss, there is no need for the U.S. Senate to confirm the selection of any special counsel.

But don’t tell that to Judge Aileen Cannon, who still has not set a date for the hearing on this very motion, as far as I can tell. Instead, she’s saying to anyone, “Come on in. The water is fine!” If she would simply do her job, Cannon would see that this is really a non-issue and reject the motion.

Oh, and for all those who filed complaints with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to remove her from the case, you can forget about it. Judge Pryor of the 11th Circuit has rejected this “organized effort” to try and remove a federal judge from a case. Seems he doesn’t want to hear from us plebeians.

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