Showing posts with label special master. Show all posts
Showing posts with label special master. Show all posts
Saturday, December 3, 2022
US court strikes down appointment of special master to review Trump records
"The law is clear," the appeals court wrote in an unanimous 23-page opinion. "We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so."…
Friday, December 2, 2022
Cannon special master for Trump Mar-a-Lago documents rejected by appeals court - The Washington Post
They said they could not issue an order that would "allow any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant."
"Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so," the Thursday opinion read. "Either approach would be a radical reordering of our caselaw limiting the federal courts' involvement in criminal investigations. And both would violate bedrock separation-of-powers limitations."…
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
‘Where’s the beef?’: special master says Trump’s Mar-a-Lago records claims lack substance | Donald Trump | The Guardian
On the call, Dearie specifically asked Trump's lawyers to give him a better sense of how one document, for instance, could both be subject to executive privilege – a designation applying to presidential records – and simultaneously be a non-governmental, personal document...
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Opinion | Supreme Court ruling on Mar-a-Lago underscores Trump's complaints - The Washington Post
The Supreme Court has dismissed Donald Trump in a single sentence. With no note of dissent, the justices Thursday rejected the former president's request to intervene in litigation over documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate this summer. This outcome only underscores the outrageous frivolity of the contentions his team has lodged in courts of law and public opinion...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Donald Trump’s ‘Special Master’ Delay Is Already Backfiring
…For example, previous court filings disclosed that investigators recovered documents showing that "certain pages of presidential records had been torn up," a violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2071 that bars anyone from ever again holding a political office in the United States. Those same documents could also support the other federal charge they're considering against the former president, 18 U.S. Code § 1519, because the feds "developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the [Mar-a-Lago] storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation." That second criminal charge carries the threat of a 20-year prison sentence…
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Special master to Trump’s lawyers: ‘You can't have your cake and eat it too’ - POLITICO
Whether any of the records seized from Trump's home are classified may ultimately be a side issue. The Justice Department has emphasized that the three potential crimes it is investigating don't hinge on whether the material held at Mar-a-Lago was classified.
Still, Dearie's comments on classification of the records were particularly notable in light of a separate court filing by Trump, who is urging a federal appeals court to keep in place Cannon's order blocking the Justice Department from advancing its criminal investigation into the seized records...
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Trump's DERANGED rally, Trump judge ORDERS special master, Biden and Dems fight for workers and MORE
Streamed live on Sep 5, 2022 On today’s episode of The MeidasTouch Podcast, we bring you the latest breaking news! Trump appointed judge, Judge Aileen Cannon, made an atrocious ruling Monday appointing a Special Master and issuing an injunction against the DOJ to stop reviewing records and using records seized for their criminal investigation into Donald Trump until the Special Master completes his or her work. We discuss what this means for the investigation into Trump’s theft of our Top Secret documents what comes next.
We also discuss Trump’s speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania this weekend, which quickly devolved into a traveling fascist perverse circus, President Biden’s powerful statements against the threat of MAGA Republicans, and the work the Biden administration has taken to help labor!
Interview:
Loose Cannon (Allison Gill and Andrew Torrez; Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcast #86)
Trump’s incompetent filing in Judge Cannon’s court gave rise to a ruling that, when looked at through the most charitable lens, is bonkers. It nearly defies description, but your hosts do their damnedest.
Interview:
The Trump ‘special master’ ruling violates the principle that no-one is above the law
Our constitutional republic requires that judicial decision making stay within the bounds of common sense, reason, precedent and the rule of law and outside the realm of extremist, results-driven irrationality. When it fails to do so, no explanation suffices short of abject political bias or personal ambition...
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Judge Cannon’s Ruling Is Untethered to the Law - The Atlantic
Cannon's opinion, by contrast, is so deeply flawed that it's hard to know where to begin a critique. Let's start with the unequal application of the law. Although Trump wallows in feigned claims of persecution, in fact he has been privileged by the Justice Department, and now Cannon, in a manner unheard of for any other defendant. Every defendant would relish the opportunity to delay a criminal investigation by having a court enjoin the government from investigation, but that never happens. The time-honored recourse for someone aggrieved by a search is not to have an unelected judge unilaterally decide to enjoin the constitutionally delegated power of the executive branch to investigate and prosecute. The defense remedy is in a post-indictment motion to suppress evidence from a search...
Opinion: Judge's ruling for Trump is astonishing - CNN
On all these legal questions, Cannon's consideration of these issues was superficial and conclusory...
Aileen Cannon, Judge in Trump Mar-a-Lago Classified Documents Investigation, Is Endangering the Rule of Law
Judge Aileen Cannon’s granting of former President Donald Trump’s request for a special master to oversee review of documents seized from Mar-A-Lago and her stopping the Justice Department from further review of those documents sets a dangerous legal precedent that could potentially derail not just criminal investigation of Trump’s actions but future criminal investigations of every ilk.
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