Remember when the Republicans were all about removing "activist judges"? Good times...
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"Activist judges" for me, none for thee.
Lets hope this will lead to a real judge to preside over the case, and not just a Trump Minion.
Not to familiar with the Supreme Court I see. I have some bad news...
That, unfortunately, it will not. She hasn't come out and actually stated her bias, which is about what you need to do.
She made a ruling that upended decades of precedent concerning the constitutionality of special council appointments.
She may work for Conservatives, but she ain't SCOTUS, and she doesn't have the same ability to rewrite the law based on specious reasoning. Plus, she's already been reprimanded and reversed by the 11th Circuit twice for questionable rulings.
She doesn't need to communicate bias, she just needs to make it clear that she's unfit to adjudicate this case, which is pretty obvious at this point. If Jack Smith can prove any bias, it will just be icing on the cake.
Fear not citizen! The judiciary has randomly selected:
AILEEN. CANNON.
To preside over this case. Rest assured all efforts were made to ensure a fair and speedy trial!
Clarence Thomas has entered the chat...
They said real judge, not sock puppet.
He is a real judge and thats the terrifying part.
Clarence thinks he's a Real Judge tho. If you ask him, he'll tell you.
You can always ID a sock puppet... they have somebody elses hand up their ass.
Would expect no less
If special council wins the appeal and Cannon stays on as judge that would be awkward. Of course it'll go to the Supreme Court and by then the election will be over. If Trump wins the election and he knows he'll be facing prosecution he'll be desperate. We've seen what he'll do to try and save face, if he's looking at jail time I'm worried what he'll do. You know this time he'll surround himself with loyalists
If he wins the election the case goes away
I guess you are right about that. The charges in Georgia will still stand though
Except all of his damning phone calls can be construed as official acts and thus tossed.
Because the President is above the law.
He's also effectively in charge of the DOJ but yes, correct
Seems like she could have made this determination right off the bat
I'm honestly surprised that she dismissed at this stage. If she could have dragged the case to the point where they had selected a jury, then dismissed for some reason, there would have been no right to an appeal. I do understand that Clarence Thomas essentially suggested that Cannon should take this route in one of his concurrences, but it seems like the wrong strategy when there was a possibility to dismiss without the possibility of appeal.
I don't mean that I wish she had dismissed later. I just mean that I'm surprised because I thought their strategy was going to be different with this case.
But they're just trying to run out the clock so Trump can win and issue himself a pardon.
She's auditioning for the next opening on the supreme court.
What you have to understand is Thomas is really stupid. He is peak Dunning-Kruger, and possibly the stupidest person to ever serve on SCOTUS. He has no idea what he is doing and almost no understanding of the law.
Will that be thrown out because he does not have standing then?
Doesn't this have to be appealed by the doj themselves?
Too little too late. This should have been expedited from day 1. Good luck getting any resemblance of justice between now and November. After that nothing matters anymore because fascists will be in power, thanks to your slow dance.
So where is it headed to get the rubber stamp this time? 5th circuit? Or is our system so incredibly stupid that it will somehow end up in front of cannon again?
Smith needs to fight the fight, but the Republicans have been playing the decades long game of rigging the courts... While we were fighting over figurehead presidents the right was establishing the means to control all political outcomes...
It'll go to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, since that's where Florida is.
Note that the 11th Circuit has slapped Cannon down before. I hope they do it again.
And watch them give the case back to her so she can keep fucking the dog on the matter...
That is my fear.
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