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.

  • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 months ago

    I advocate shooting lessons because you donā€™t want to hit the wrong object. Isnā€™t that a safe thing to advocate for? šŸ˜œ

    Do we need to talk in code like unalive someone in Minecraft/Roblox?

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      10 months ago

      I absolutely encourage good firearms safety IN GENERAL. Youā€™re never too young to learn good trigger discipline. ;)

      Advocating it in response to an election or other political event carries unfortunate connotations which isnā€™t allowed.

      Iā€™m actually quite pleased at the number of gun groups that have popped up on Lemmy. Liberal Gun Owners for example, I think thereā€™s one for LGBTQ shooters as well. Canā€™t recall the name of it.