Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys asked a federal judge Monday to reject special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order in the classified documents case and to find the federal prosecutors who wrote the request in contempt.
    • whodatdair@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      5·
      1 year ago

      Honestly she’ll probably write another 10 pages shitting on smith for stupid reasons, then the last page will say something like “but in light of circuit president, motion is granted”

      She seems keenly aware that the circuit court would embarrass her again, imho. She’s appeared shockingly incompetent at everything except avoiding making appealable decisions.

      Edit: God dammit it took like 3 hours between this comment and being proven wrong as shit lol

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    231·
    1 year ago

    This is Jack Smith’s mind at work, and this is a trap. It’s very obvious Cannon has been obstructing this case, and Smith wants her gone, or to make such a huge and obvious misstep that the 11th Circuit will pull her off the case. This aims for one or both of those things to happen.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        This aims to elicit a response though. She can’t just ignore motions. She also can’t outright dismiss the case anyway without making an appeal guaranteed, at which point she’d be releasing whatever protective control she holds over the case. This is a federal case, you can’t just make it “go away”. DJ would also not be attached if no other court has touched it.

          • just_another_person@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 year ago

            I can just sum this up in a sentence:

            Delaying is a tactic, but there are protections in Habeas Corpus that allow appeals for literally anything, and Double Jeopardy would never be attatched in such a situation which she has created.

          • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
            22·
            1 year ago

            I’m not a lawyer, but double jeopardy is applied when a jury finds a verdict. There is such a thing as a mistrial. If the jury hangs there is a mistrial, and I don’t believe a dismissal is an acquittal just because there are jurors in seats.

      • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
        4·
        1 year ago

        Not really though, because they have evidence he moved documents to Bedford.

        So, 2nd investigation, more documents seized, new case with the same charges filed in New Jersey or DC this time.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Smith’s office has requested that the Florida judge overseeing the classified documents case, Aileen Cannon, place a gag order on the former president that would limit his ability to publicly talk about law enforcement that searched his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022.

    Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee, has repeatedly and misleadingly criticized the FBI for having a policy in place around the use of deadly force during the search – as the bureau does with every warrant it executes.

    That structure would “require the Probation Office and the Court to mediate disputes against a backdrop of potentially imprisoning a political opponent who is successfully defeating Smith’s boss and preferred candidate,” they wrote.

    Beyond rejecting the gag order request, Cannon should impose sanctions on “all government attorneys who participated in the decision to file the Motion,” Trump’s team said.

    The former president is separately under a gag order in the Washington, DC, federal election interference case and in his ongoinng hush money trial in New York state court.

    Garland and the FBI have also noted that the same deadly force policy was included in plans before a search of President Joe Biden’s Delaware home during a separate investigation into his own handling of classified documents.

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