Judge Aileen Cannon seems determined to accede to drumpf’s wishes and not allow his trial in the classified document hoarding case to get underway on Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s proposed July 8 start date, but she cannot use as an excuse to delay the trial until after the election the DOJ’s proscription against beginning a prosecution of a candidate within 60 days of an election.

Sorry, judge, that ship has already sailed.

MSN

“WASHINGTON, DC: Special counsel Jack Smith addressed points made by Donald Trump’s defense team during a scheduling conference on Friday, March 1.

The defense claimed that the Department of Justice’s Mar-a-Lago case was unlawful because it was too soon to the 2024 election and went against DOJ policy.

Trump’s lawyers contended in a defense brief on Thursday that the Mar-a-Lago case ought to be postponed until after the election because Smith’s suggested trial date of July 8 would “violate Justice Manual § 9-85.500.”

The DOJ’s internal policy and procedure on safeguarding government integrity by avoiding “Actions that May Have an Impact on an Election,” as outlined in the Justice Manual § 9-85.500, did not apply to Trump, the special counsel informed the US District Judge Aileen Cannon, because the former President was indicted in June 2023, more than a year and a half after the alleged “60-day rule” came into effect.”

Looks like Loose Cannon will have to dig dapper into her bag of tricks to help her Boss out of this jam.

MSNBC contributor Katie Phang reported this development on Twitter:


Yup


Exactly, and she is already on thin ice.


Well, she can try.


🤣🤣🤣


Yup


One would think.


Probably.


🤷‍♂️


🤣🤣🤣

The ball is back in your court, so to speak, Judge Cannon, but be careful to keep your service in bounds.

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Um, I don’t even understand the “logic” (if you want to call it that) in saying that July 8 is “within 60 days of an election.”

    What calendar are we using here where July 8 (the 8th day of the 7th month of the year) is within sixty days (aka “2 months”) of an election, which could only be referring to the general election to be held on November 5 (the 5th day of the 11th month of the year)? Even counting ONLY weekdays (i.e., Monday through Friday), that 60th day would be Monday, September 30th (we have to account for the Monday Labor Day holiday on September 2nd; otherwise, Day 60 would fall on Friday, September 27th). September 30, 2024 still leaves a full 24 weekdays (there’s also a Monday holiday–Columbus Day–that falls in that time frame) before the election.

    So, I don’t understand why Trump’s team thinks that July 8 would invoke the “60-day rule” (beyond, of course, Trump’s incessant need to “delay, delay, delay”). SEPTEMBER 8? Maybe they’d have had a better case in invoking the “60-day rule” but the DOJ properly reminded the Trump team that Trump’s already been indicted so it’s not the case. I think the *ONLY* way that Trump can invoke the “60-day rule” now is to avoid any NEW prosecutions that might arise after September (he might could even start disparaging E Jean Carroll again in mid-September and be able to get away with it).

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    • You have to.be able to count to 20, using fingers and toes, which she apparently cannot. I wonder if she can use glue and scissors well.enough to pass kindsrgarten.

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      • She’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

        She is going to FAFO and this time we might just get OUR wish that the appellate removes her before she can eff up any more of this trial. You usually have to look at the con xtians on the s.c. or the appellate court over texass to find incompetents of this caliber.

        Given what we’ve seen in the way of legal “talent” sent to mcconnell by the fed soc, they must look at the bottom of the barrel candidates and say “hey, we can look lower than this” and choose those idiots BELOW the bottom of the barrel.

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  3. We know only what we are open to knowing. She’s clearly beholden to her master. The question is really what Jack does to counter her.

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    • Eventually she is going to step in a pile of sh*t of her own making that even the appellate court over her cannot ignore and this will result in that court removing her before she embarrasses them beyond repair. If they continue to allow her to display her incompetence for all the world to see, they will look as incompetent as she is. It’s not a good look on her, it sure as hell won’t be a good look on them.

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  4. Why do I suspect that she slept her way through law school and passed the bar the same way? I know her law school is maybe 15th tier, but doesn’t she have law clerks who actually attended classes who can explain it to.her? He’ll I am a lowly paralegal, and I know the law better than she does.

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  5. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair

    Or a woman.

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