Judge dismisses classified documents case against Donald Trump

Republicans: Make themselves above the Law while Endangering US National Security. Also Republicans: Why are people trying to Assassinate us?

In the immunity case, when all the other judges were writing opinions about that case, Clarence Thomas wrote an opinion about a totally different case, this one. He was signaling her to dismiss the case.

I'm so sick of these corrupt motherfuckers

What a nonsense decision, it should be appealed at the very least

Edit a lot has happened so let’s bring some context to this: Hilary Clinton was derided as unfit for presidency because she had a secure server in her private space for emails, some of which were classified.

Meanwhile, Trump literally had boxes of classified documents in a bathroom. Republicans are duplicitous, hypocritical and should not be expected to operate on good faith.

Or if they’re not, then they should show some objectivity and apply the same standards everywhere. What a bunch of clowns

Edit2 said a wrong word

Are you fucking kidding? So special attorneys, which have been used by pretty much every administration and every congress since the position was created, are not valid now?

I'm not a law expert, but was the way she dismissed it make it so he can't be charged again in either another jurisdiction or by the appropriate (in her mind) prosecution team?

America is just shouting out of every place: "Down with democracy, down with the constitutional rule of law! Hail to a fascist state!" And still the biggest discussion is about some fumbling and age.

An authoritarian dictatorship is so clearly in your furure if you guys don't wake up and spend your energy fighting against THIS instead of one another.

The rest of the world is really relying on you not to fuck this up.

Please?

Hunter Biden was found guilty by a "special prosecutor" with the same bona fides Jack Smith had.

Judge Cannon just told us that Hunter's prosecution was unconstitutional.

Why the hell is this bitch still in charge of anything?

You know, I'm beginning to think this judge Cannon isn't impartial.

Fuck this timeline.

Reminder: in the presidential immunity case, SCOTUS ruled that an "official act" is immune, and only SCOTUS can decide what an "official act" is.

Obviously, this fascist SCOTUS would rule that anything Trump does is official, and anything Biden does is unofficial.

But...if Biden were to take some sort of action that caused a new composition of the court...the new SCOTUS could then rule that action, and any other by Biden, as official.

I think it might be time for Biden to take action.

Germany, 1933, calling.

To paraphrase margery tyrell, "He doesn't care about the consequences because he doesn't intend to suffer them."

Trump has fallen ass backwards into a perpetual get out of jail free card. Is it any wonder he acts with impunity when events time after time prove that he is effectively immune from all but the most trivial inconveniences?

I've never been more glad to be child free.

Very interesting timing.

The US are really speedrunning the whole "become a global laughing stock", huh? How ironic that the cause of banana republics would itself become one.

Biden needs to use his new powers the Supreme court has given him.

In a ruling Monday, Cannon said the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution.

“In the end, it seems the Executive’s growing comfort in appointing ‘regulatory’ special counsels in the more recent era has followed an ad hoc pattern with little judicial scrutiny,” Cannon wrote.

So she wants a judge to say an investigator can be appointed to gather information to take to a judge?

This is obviously just some Sneeches bullshit. You could just as well argue before it can be brought to a judge, an investigation needs to be done to gather evidence.

So I guess more like chicken and egg.

Ah, the sweet sound of corruption. What a nice gift from someone appointed by Trump to a powerful and well-paid position. I can hear Anastacia singing on the judges' radio: "I paid my dues."

Why arent Americans on the street right now? Isnt this one of those situations of use it or lose it (in terms of rights)?

So do the robes have kneepads built in these days or do they have to get them altered special?

Oh, this is going to go over well.

Of course it was Cannon...

OK, so hand it over to Garland and start from scratch. Not like the facts change, only the prosecutor's name.

nice

The shooter could have waited a few days then taken her out, much lower security, basically the same message.

Ooooh I bet that stings lol