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Thread #173796   Message #4215323
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
14-Jan-25 - 03:43 PM
Thread Name: Convicted felon US 47th President 1 thread
Subject: RE: Convicted felon US 47th President 1 thread
From Slate, so there is a paywall, but the browser extension "JustRead" lets you see the article.

Aileen Cannon's final gift to Trump: The Jack Smith report DOA.
And yet: It feels as though Cannon’s conduct in recent days marked a departure, even for her. Among other things, last week she reached out and meddled in a case over which she had no jurisdiction, plucking the matter back from the appeals court where it was properly pending. She attempted to quash a report on a case that was wholly unconnected to the Mar-a-Lago case that was being litigated before a different judge in D.C. Amid the chaotic filings and deadlines and decisions issued over the past few days, lawyers attempted to parse what she was doing and why she believed she could do it as we waited with bated breath to figure out who would stop her. When it became clear on Monday that in fact nobody was going to stop her, Cannon took her own win by keeping the Mar-a-Lago report under wraps and begrudgingly letting the Justice Department release the Jan. 6 volume (after the 11th Circuit indicated that it would do so for her if she didn’t backtrack quickly). This seems a moment worth naming and marking.