I’m typing this on my phone with one finger using my connection through AT&T because the internet has been down most of the day and is off right now. More tomorrow on this HUGE story, but for now, the unanimous ruling by the three judge panel, two of them Trump appointees, all of them appointed by Republican presidents, means that the special master review ordered by Judge Aileen Cannon will be shut down and the DOJ will be able to resume its criminal investigation unhindered by bogus restraints imposed by the Florida judge.
This is, of course, great news. One might think Judge Cannon may have learned a lesson from this exercise in legal foolishness . . . . . but I doubt it.
It is a HUGE Story because it looks like the 3 fingered barbarian is now out of options even if he appeals to the SC, who will just tell him, "You're shit out of luck, buster."
Well this seals it. DOJ is going to charge him on the Espionage Act violation.
While I believe the January 6 crime is what he should be charged with that is too complicated and would require charging many well connected GOP leaders . A never ending trial which the country can not stand.
Dec 2, 2022·edited Dec 2, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Things are starting to crumble for Trump. It was always going to be this. He's spent decades ripping people off with abuse of the justice system. The worst kind of abuse. He's broken decent people who've done honest work for him and bankrupted them. Telling some they got paid by being associated with his valuable "brand," that name he's now turned to a toxic burning mess. Trump has a lot of bad days coming. It wasn't just turning Cannon's rulings back on her. Maybe we're in the tipping point; maybe we're closer but he has bad things coming now. There were other things. His tax returns have been turned over. And other things today. If we're lucky, it will be a torrent soon. And Lucian, if you read this, I depend on always being connected to the Internet with the work I do and recently I signed onto T-Mobile's great Internet Box and it's 50 dollars a month, unlimited data, way out in rural Alabama it kept me online live streaming job after job that lasted all day and they will never break the contract. It's not as powerful as Cox Internet or some of the others but it is more than enough to email off an important story.
Dec 2, 2022·edited Dec 3, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
It was inevitable that this would happen. What was disappointing was the 11th Circuit's tolerance for District Judge Aileen Cannon's grandstanding. To its credit, the ruling panel told Judge Cannon that she had no jurisdiction to enter the criminal case as she did. Something I wrote three months ago. To me, this was a firing offense by a willful Trump apparatchik and sympathizer.
Judge Cannon's future career as a Federal District Judge is also questionable. She can attend soirees at the Federalist Society, and take her bows, but anyone can see that she's tainted goods. Maybe the Appeals Court stayed its hand because Cannon is one of their own. If so, their ringing down the curtain by telling her that she lacked jurisdiction to entertain Trump's claims, coming at the tail end of the case could have been their first conclusion when the first appeal was heard and argued three months ago. The facts hadn't changed, but the quotient of judicial embarrassment escalated exponentially.
This was really a no-brainer from the start. The appellate court's ruling is unanimous, but unsigned, something that smacks of embarrassment, like someone who leaves an anonymous, odoriferous package on your doorstep, rings the doorbell, and then runs away. For Christ's sake, these are people with cushy, lifetime jobs who essentially answer to nobody outside their own tight little corner of the world. Are they so concerned that if they show up at their country club, they will be ostracized, and the Maitre D' will be seating them at a table next to the busboy's station? Signing their names to their ruling is part of the job.Their hypocrisy is there for all to see , with a ruling is redolent of heroic language, squeezed out of them only at the last minute, when their backs are to the wall, and they're forced to face their own moment of truth.
The upside is a solid, well articulated rebuke to a rogue judge who refused to be constrained by any lesser means. This means airing the judiciary's soiled linen in the most public way possible. After this thunderbolt, any resort to the Supreme Court by Trump is a waste of time, and will get him nowhere.
If Judge Cannon has any consideration for her future as a judge, she would do herself a favor by dismissing Trump's suit sua sponte, (on her own initiative), rather than await the 11th Circuit's order remanding the case back to her with directions to dismiss the suit forthwith.
Can’t wait for the big story tomorrow but in the meantime...HOORAY FOR ALL OF US! Kinda brings my anxiety down a bit knowing that Cannon has been pushed aside, hopefully to a bin filled with garbage, and that the DOJ has a direct path to tackle Trump and his offspring head-on.
How much public money was wasted in this fruitless delaying action by the trumpie lawyers? The special master and staff were paid from... what, exactly? Who was left holding the bag for this latest weave-and-dodge display from Drumpf?
This is, of course, great news. One might think Judge Cannon may have learned a lesson from this exercise in legal foolishness . . . . . but I doubt it.
It is a HUGE Story because it looks like the 3 fingered barbarian is now out of options even if he appeals to the SC, who will just tell him, "You're shit out of luck, buster."
Looking forward to your article on it.
Well this seals it. DOJ is going to charge him on the Espionage Act violation.
While I believe the January 6 crime is what he should be charged with that is too complicated and would require charging many well connected GOP leaders . A never ending trial which the country can not stand.
If he is found guilty his political career is
over. That will be good enough for me.
Things are starting to crumble for Trump. It was always going to be this. He's spent decades ripping people off with abuse of the justice system. The worst kind of abuse. He's broken decent people who've done honest work for him and bankrupted them. Telling some they got paid by being associated with his valuable "brand," that name he's now turned to a toxic burning mess. Trump has a lot of bad days coming. It wasn't just turning Cannon's rulings back on her. Maybe we're in the tipping point; maybe we're closer but he has bad things coming now. There were other things. His tax returns have been turned over. And other things today. If we're lucky, it will be a torrent soon. And Lucian, if you read this, I depend on always being connected to the Internet with the work I do and recently I signed onto T-Mobile's great Internet Box and it's 50 dollars a month, unlimited data, way out in rural Alabama it kept me online live streaming job after job that lasted all day and they will never break the contract. It's not as powerful as Cox Internet or some of the others but it is more than enough to email off an important story.
It was inevitable that this would happen. What was disappointing was the 11th Circuit's tolerance for District Judge Aileen Cannon's grandstanding. To its credit, the ruling panel told Judge Cannon that she had no jurisdiction to enter the criminal case as she did. Something I wrote three months ago. To me, this was a firing offense by a willful Trump apparatchik and sympathizer.
Judge Cannon's future career as a Federal District Judge is also questionable. She can attend soirees at the Federalist Society, and take her bows, but anyone can see that she's tainted goods. Maybe the Appeals Court stayed its hand because Cannon is one of their own. If so, their ringing down the curtain by telling her that she lacked jurisdiction to entertain Trump's claims, coming at the tail end of the case could have been their first conclusion when the first appeal was heard and argued three months ago. The facts hadn't changed, but the quotient of judicial embarrassment escalated exponentially.
This was really a no-brainer from the start. The appellate court's ruling is unanimous, but unsigned, something that smacks of embarrassment, like someone who leaves an anonymous, odoriferous package on your doorstep, rings the doorbell, and then runs away. For Christ's sake, these are people with cushy, lifetime jobs who essentially answer to nobody outside their own tight little corner of the world. Are they so concerned that if they show up at their country club, they will be ostracized, and the Maitre D' will be seating them at a table next to the busboy's station? Signing their names to their ruling is part of the job.Their hypocrisy is there for all to see , with a ruling is redolent of heroic language, squeezed out of them only at the last minute, when their backs are to the wall, and they're forced to face their own moment of truth.
The upside is a solid, well articulated rebuke to a rogue judge who refused to be constrained by any lesser means. This means airing the judiciary's soiled linen in the most public way possible. After this thunderbolt, any resort to the Supreme Court by Trump is a waste of time, and will get him nowhere.
If Judge Cannon has any consideration for her future as a judge, she would do herself a favor by dismissing Trump's suit sua sponte, (on her own initiative), rather than await the 11th Circuit's order remanding the case back to her with directions to dismiss the suit forthwith.
"criminal investigation" - you love to see it
Thanks for keeping us up-to-date. What determination, typing with one finger.
I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE HIM GO THE F***K DOWN! and take the Republican Party with him!
Thanks for the one-fingered update, Lucian. (I’ve never been able to “thumb-type” either.)
'I lean wherever Leo Leonard tells me to' Cannon is the tip
of the judicial iceberg.
YAY! Cannon needs to look for another job. Maybe a paralegal.
Can’t wait for the big story tomorrow but in the meantime...HOORAY FOR ALL OF US! Kinda brings my anxiety down a bit knowing that Cannon has been pushed aside, hopefully to a bin filled with garbage, and that the DOJ has a direct path to tackle Trump and his offspring head-on.
How much public money was wasted in this fruitless delaying action by the trumpie lawyers? The special master and staff were paid from... what, exactly? Who was left holding the bag for this latest weave-and-dodge display from Drumpf?
Yippee I aye!
I was worried as one of those Trump appointee’s is a hard right, conspiracy supporter. This is amazing!
Typing on the phone with one finger? Is there another way? 😝