Federal judge Aileen M. Cannon is bending over backwards to assist the ex-President, who appointed her , defense against a Justice Departemnet that EVERYONE KNOWS seized government files from Trump’s home. The judge , on her own , has decided that the government isn’t too worried about national security concerns…
The judge appointed a Special Master in Raymond J. Dearie, a semiretired judge from the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York….Dearie would have till November 30 to finish….
Both parties agreed toi the choice….
The Justice Department has threatened to appeals Cannon’s actions, which have been universally criticised by legal experts…
But?
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, is full of Trump appointed judges also…
Somewhere Donald Trump IS smiling…..
We’ll see how long….
Oh, and somewhere one would guess the media IS running judge Cannon under a microscope….
A federal judge on Thursday rejected the Justice Department’s request to resume a key part of its inquiry into former President Donald J. Trump’s handling of sensitive government records and appointed an independent arbiter to oversee a review of documents seized from him last month.
The judge, Aileen M. Cannon, appointed a candidate suggested by the Trump legal team and agreed upon by the government to sift through more than 11,000 records. The candidate was Raymond J. Dearie, a semiretired judge from the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
In a 10-page decision, Judge Cannon, of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida, declined to lift any part of an injunction she issued last week that barred the department from using any of those documents, including about 100 marked as classified, for investigative purposes until the special master had completed a review.
The Justice Department had asked the judge to partly stay that order so it could immediately resume using the 100 or so documents marked as classified in that trove, saying the freeze was endangering national security. It also threatened to go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, and seek an emergency stay if she did not agree to its proposal by Thursday…
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The department noted in filings that intelligence agencies are barred from investigative activity on domestic soil and that the F.B.I. is the agency that traditionally gathers facts in similar situations. Prosecutors said that determining what happened to the classified files — and whether any were still missing — was not merely part of their criminal investigation, but also instrumental to the national-security review.
To make their point, lawyers for the Justice Department specifically mentioned nearly 50 empty folders bearing classified banners that were found during the search of Mar-a-Lago.