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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    Ah yes, the idea that your pea shooter can deal with tanks and drones flown from under a mountain in Colorado. Nah, youā€™ll get blown up, they wonā€™t find enough parts to identify you, and the world will turn onward.

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      10 months ago

      Ah yes, the dumbass idea that the U.S. is able to take out insurgents the way it did in Afghanistan and Iraq, parroted robotically by some bootlicker any time anyone even so much as whispers the obvious solution to our problems

      Fuck off, sycophant

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        LOL this is the top comment in the thread. You managed to project your own insecurities and make it personal, which is the weirdest way to react to a random internet comment.

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          LOL this is one of the most mediocre comments in the thread. Criticizing someoneā€™s response instead of offering anything substantive because youā€™re looking to forum slide. Well, it wonā€™t work.

          I donā€™t wanna hear it.

          The American people absolutely are capable of overthrowing their own government, and they will be morally justified in doing so if Trump wins and actually starts doing the insane genocidal bullshit heā€™s been promising his camp.

          Get over it.

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            All I hear is ā€œI can be mean and itā€™s your problemā€, which gets you a block. ā€œI donā€™t want to hear itā€ and ā€œGet over itā€ is also projection on your end and shows a very narcissistic mind. Iā€™ll fortunately never see your reply, so, ya know, have a nice day I guess.