Paved the way
Florida district judge Aileen Cannon has paved the way for the Justice Department to release the first part of a special counsel’s inquiry into President-elect Donald Trump, covering the investigation and charges against Trump tied to the 2020 presidential election.
Cannon denied a motion by Trump’s former co-defendants who sought to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the election interference case.
Cannon did that? Trump’s fully bought and paid for pet judge?
The DOJ has been fighting in court about whether it is allowed to publicly release a final report from Smith about his cases against Trump. Such a report is an obligatory part of the special counsel’s work, and may be the last chance for prosecutors to explain their decisions after they dropped the federal cases against Trump after he won the election. Trump was charged with election interference in Washington, D.C., and with hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort and refusing to return them to the FBI.
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Lawyers could still appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the report’s release.
So we still have to keep holding our breaths.
It was released early this morning. I haven’t read much beyond the headline, but Smith says he would’ve gotten a conviction.
I suspect that our loose Cannon was constrained to do that since, having dismissed it, she is no longer legally in charge of the case; were she to kick up a further fuss she might well be removed from her position (which she should have been long ago).