Quinta Jurecic, Natalie K. Orpett and Benjamin Wittes write at Lawfare blog, Everything Wrong With Judge Cannon’s Ruling (excerpt): Judge Cannon’s opinion actually defies defense. It is an epic mess, one that manages to do violence to a remarkable number of distinct areas of law in an admirable economy of only 24 pages. The opinion is … Read more
Remember that Donald Trump and his corrupt lawyers went forum shopping for a Trump appointed judge – who was not the magistrate judge who issued the search warrant for his home in exile at Mar-a-Lago, the proper venue and jurisdiction for any challenge to the search warrant – whom they were confident would deliver a … Read more
Donald Trump’s incompetent lawyers made a critical mistake: they asked a judge to make the Department of Justice explain why they executed a search warrant at the failed Coup leader’s home in exile at Mar-a-Lago. The Trump-friendly judge whom they went forum shopping for agreed to the request (Judge Aileen Cannon is not the magistrate … Read more
The political punditry in this country really needs to stop with the beatification of Mike Pence for having done the right thing the one and only time in his life for a few hours on January 6, 2021. Everything he did before, and everything he has done since demonstrates a conniving little coward of a … Read more
Up until recently there were no leaks out of the DOJ about any grand jury proceedings into the January 6 insurrection. If the Coup Plotters were being subpoenaed in front of a grand jury, we should expect to see them or their lawyers leaking to Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal editorial page or going on … Read more