On Friday, District Judge Aileen Cannon issued a new order in the Donald Trump classified documents case adding to the mountain of evidence that she is firmly in the former presidentā€™s pocket. Trump appointed Cannon in 2020 and the Senate confirmed her appointment in the days after he lost the 2020 election. Itā€™s deeply offensive to the rule of law for judges to bend the law to benefit those who put them on the bench. Sadly, Cannon does just that.

Cannonā€™s new ruling rejected special counsel Jack Smithā€™s entirely standard request that she order Trump to state whether he intends to rely on an ā€œadvice of counselā€ defense ahead of the trial, currently scheduled for May 20. Advance notice of the defense helps expedite a trial because defendants asserting it need to provide additional discovery to prosecutorsā€”raising the defense means that defendants must disclose all communications with their attorneys, as the defense waives the attorneyā€“client privilege.

Judge Cannonā€™s brief order asserted that Smithā€™s motion was ā€œnot amenable to proper consideration at this juncture, prior to at least partial resolution of pretrial motionsā€ and further discovery.

Sound innocuous? Itā€™s anything but. Instead, itā€™s part of a pattern weā€™ve already seen of Cannon laying the groundwork for delaying Trumpā€™s trialā€”until itā€™s too late for a jury to be empaneled and the case tried to verdict before the election.

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    I donā€™t own firearms. And I donā€™t appreciate shitheels implying that I do.

    Not everyone with an agenda fills it with killing people to make the sex hot at home.

    Because that is the pig game: they figured out how hot the sex is after beating someone or a kill.

    And that is what they canā€™t give up. Their ultimate VIAGRA : Kill and fuck.

    Addicted to killing and fucking is what a badge is all about.

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/police-trainer-best-sex-killing/

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      Youā€™re right.

      If the fascists take over, itā€™s better to quietly sit on the sidelines and hope youā€™re not one of the targeted undesirables.

      First they came for the trans people, and I did not actā€”
      Because I was not trans.

      Then they came for the gay people , and I did not actā€”
      Because I was not gay.

      Then they came for the immigrants, and I did not actā€”
      Because I was not an immigrant.

      Then they came for the women, and I did not actā€”
      Because I was not a woman.

      Then they came for the ā€wokeā€, and I did not actā€”
      Because I was not ā€wokeā€.

      Then they came for meā€”and there was no one left to act for me.

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      LOL people actually downvoted you for saying that you donā€™t have or like guns.

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        I was actually about to upvote for that first paragraph, but downvoted because of the rest.

        And hey, I mean, ACAB, Iā€™m not defending cops. Cops are selected for stupidity and aggression, trained to murder, and held above the law. Even the best of them are still part of a system that is oppressive by design.

        But what that trainer was saying was true, and an important thing to acknowledge for anybody who is likely to be in life-and-death situations - firefighters, paramedics, even social workers. Go to the Snopes link he included and read the whole thing.

        Sex is a normal reaction to danger. It doesnā€™t mean that cops are going out and killing people just to have better sex, thatā€™s stupid. Theyā€™re killing people, yes, for lots of reasons, but thatā€™s not one of them. Itā€™s almost as dumb as the QAnon quacks talking about adrenochrome.

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        Americans are blood thirsty, genocidal monsters. What did you expect? Lmaoooooooooo