When Trump went judge shopping

Sep 6th, 2022 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Some lawyery opinions.

This judge basically did Trump’s lawyers’ work for them, making arguments under the 4-part Richey test which Trump did not brief or argue, making executive privilege arguments that Trump did not press fully in the hearing, and granting an injunction when one wasn’t requested https://t.co/qD0aWUiNys

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 5, 2022

https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_/status/1566827402910732292

Exactly right. Cannon’s order will go down as part of the judicial anticannon — the body of decisions, like Dred Scott or Korematsu, that lawyers use for generations to teach students how NOT to wield the judicial power. https://t.co/8wHC4jVSWe

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) September 5, 2022

This item is especially creepy – she’s like a robot they created especially for the purpose of shielding Trump from the law.

https://twitter.com/PeterVroom1/status/1563961640235814912

Why is judge shopping allowed at all? If crooks can just find a crooked judge anywhere in the country to block criminal investigations, how can the legal system work?

Yup. Totally lousy opinion. Utterly lawless. But 6 of the 11 judges on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals are Trump appointees rather like District Court Judge Cannon. Sadly, that tells you more than the learned analysis by @neal_katyal does. Sigh. https://t.co/FgnS2zFE3X

— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) September 6, 2022

So the DoJ appeal is doomed to fail? So Trump is going to walk away? (And then steal the next election and do an Orban?)

This is grotesque.

5 Responses to “When Trump went judge shopping”

#1
Bjarte Foshaug
September 6, 2022 at 6:57 am

Cannon’s order will go down as part of the judicial anticannon — the body of decisions […] that lawyers use for generations to teach students how NOT to wield the judicial power.

With any luck…
#2
Colin Day
September 6, 2022 at 7:24 am

Anticanon, unless Tribe believes they should not be fired out of a piece of artillery.
#3
iknklast
September 6, 2022 at 8:44 am

Colin Day, beat me to it. If that’s the case, Tribe is more generous than I am. I think Trump, the judge, and all the lawyers on his side should be fired out of cannons.
#4
What a Maroon
September 6, 2022 at 9:10 am

I think “anticannon” was a play on the judge’s name.
#5
maddog1129
September 6, 2022 at 2:50 pm

I think WaM has it right.