Aileen
Cannon
Sometimes
Judge
Aileen
Cannon
likes
to
mix
up
the
absolute
hackery
by
doing
real
judge
stuff.
You
know
…
to
keep
’em
on
their
toes!
And
so
last
night,
she
took
a
break
during
a
two-week
stretch
of
pure
partisan
nonsense
to
issue
a
real
order.
Cue
the
golf
claps.
The
south
Florida
jurist,
installed
during
Trump’s
last
lame
duck
session,
dismissed
the
stolen
documents
case
last
summer
after
deciding
that
special
counsels
are
illegal.
Nevertheless,
she
happily
grabbed
an
oar
and
started
paddling
when
her
patron
asked
for
help
thwarting
the
release
of
the
special
counsel
report,
which
would
remind
Americans
what
an
abject
criminal
he
is.
And
even
after
the
Eleventh
Circuit
denied
an
identical
petition,
she
insisted
that
she
had
continuing
jurisdiction
—
obligation
even!
—
to
enjoin
the
release
of
the
report
insofar
as
it
might
impact
the
trial
of
Trump’s
co-conspirators,
Walt
Nauta
and
Carlos
De
Oliveira.
Of
course,
that
trial
is
never
going
to
happen,
since
she
dismissed
the
case
and
Trump
is
going
to
pardon
them
and
kill
the
appeal
next
week.
But
invoking
the
specter
of
a
trial,
Cannon
blustered
up
a
justification
to
enjoin
release
of
Volume
2
of
the
special
counsel’s
report,
which
describes
the
documents
case.
She
purports
to
have
grave
concerns
that
the
report
will
leak
and
harm
the
(nonexistent)
case,
even
if
the
only
people
who
get
to
see
it
are
the
heads
of
the
House
and
Senate
Judiciary
Committees.
But
she
could
not
shoehorn
herself
into
jurisdiction
over
Volume
1,
which
deals
with
the
election
interference
case
in
DC
—
although
not
for
lack
of
trying.
And
so,
with
a
couple
snarky
footnotes
for
the
prosecutors,
was
forced
to
release
her
injunction
on
that
portion
of
the
report.
But
at
9:45,
less
than
three
hours
before
that
injunction
expired,
Trump
took
one
last
flyer
at
his
pal
in
Palm
Beach.
Styled
as
a
“Supplemental
Memorandum
in
Support
of
Intervention
and
Emergency
Relief
and
Emergency
Request
to
Extend
Temporary
Injunction,”
he
invited
Judge
Cannon
to
consider
once
again
his
invitation
to
go
all
in
and
dare
the
Eleventh
Circuit
to
do
something
about
it.
Conceding
that
the
judge
had
“yet
to
rule
on
President
Trump’s
Motion
to
Intervene
or,
in
the
Alternative,
Participate
as
Amicus
Curiae,”
he
requested
that
the
court
“(1)
set
President
Trump’s
motion
to
intervene
for
a
hearing
at
the
existing
January
17,
2025,
hearing
scheduled
in
this
matter;
and
(2)
preserve
the
existing
status
quo
by
briefly
extending
the
existing
temporary
restraining
order,
Doc.
682,
as
to
both
Volume
I
and
II
of
the
Final
Report,
until
President
Trump’s
motion
to
intervene
and
substantive
arguments
are
resolved.”
“Never
before
in
our
Nation’s
history
has
the
Department
of
Justice
attempted
to
interfere
with
an
incoming
Presidential
administration
in
this
manner,
let
alone
on
the
very
eve
of
inauguration
by
means
of
a
false
report
issued
by
a
discredited
prosecutor
who
has
now
resigned
in
disgrace,”
his
lawyer
John
Singer
vamped.
“Nor
should
the
Court
permit
the
Department
to
do
so
until
providing
President
Trump
a
full
and
fair
opportunity
to
be
heard
on
these
enormously
consequential
questions.”
Sadly,
it
was
not
meant
to
be.
At
11:30,
Judge
Cannon
issued
a
minute
order
denying
the
requested
relief,
noting
ruefully
that
her
order
of
dismissal
only
unperson-ed
the
special
counsel
for
the
purposes
of
the
documents
case.
As
indicated
697,
the
Order
Granting
Defendants’
Motion
to
Dismiss
the
Superseding
Indictment
is
confined
to
this
proceeding
672,
as
is
this
Court’s
authority
to
enforce
its
own
orders
in
this
proceeding.
The
Court
is
therefore
constrained
to
deny
the
present
request
for
emergency
relief,
expressing
no
opinion
on
the
merits
of
the
arguments
in
the
Motion
to
Intervene
as
to
Volume
I
or
on
the
United
States’
asserted
urgency
in
releasing
Volume
I.
And
so
the
report
was
released
by
the
DOJ
at
around
12:45
a.m.
Perhaps
Judge
Cannon
did
the
president
a
favor
by
denying
his
order.
The
Eleventh
Circuit
seems
willing
to
let
her
bone
the
documents
report,
but
magicking
up
jurisdiction
over
the
DC
case
might
have
actually
roused
the
appellate
panel
from
its
torpor
and
resulted
in
the
release
of
both
volumes.
But
Trump
tends
to
remember
the
last
thing
his
lackeys
did
or
did
not
do
for
him,
so
we
probably
won’t
be
seeing
Supreme
Court
Justice
Aileen
Cannon
any
time
soon.
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