Aileen
Cannon
This
morning,
a
US
District
judge
ordered
the
attorney
general
of
the
United
States
to
violate
federal
law.
That
judge
was
of
course
Aileen
Cannon,
who
has
done
literally
everything
she
could
to
shield
the
man
who
put
on
her
on
the
bench
four
years
ago
after
he’d
lost
the
presidency.
Yesterday,
Trump’s
henchmen
Walt
Nauta
and
Carlos
de
Oliveira,
who
remain
as
defendants
in
the
stolen
documents
case
until
their
boss
can
pardon
them
in
two
weeks,
asked
Judge
Cannon
to
do
them
one
more
solid.
Building
on
her
amazing
discovery
that
special
counsels
are
unlegal,
they’re
asking
her
to
enjoin
non-entity
Jack
Smith
and
his
non-boss
Attorney
General
Merrick
Garland
from
releasing
the
final
non-report
of
the
investigation
to
Congress.
They
argue:
Despite
this
Court’s
concluding
that
Smith
is
unconstitutionally
appointed
and
funded,
and
despite
ongoing
proceedings
against
Defendants
Waltine
Nauta
and
Carlos
De
Olivera,
Special
Counsel
Smith,
in
defiance
of
this
Court’s
rulings,
is
determined
to
have
the
final
word
by
pushing
forward
with
issuing
and
transmitting
a
final
report
under
28
C.F.R.
§
608(c)
(the
“Final
Report”)
which
Attorney
General
Garland
is
certain
to
make
immediately
public.
These
Defendants
will
irreparably
suffer
harm
as
civilian
casualties
of
the
Government’s
impermissible
and
contumacious
utilization
of
political
lawfare
to
include
release
of
the
unauthorized
Report.
The
Final
Report
relies
on
materials
to
which
Smith,
as
disqualified
special
counsel,
is
no
longer
entitled
access—
making
his
attempt
to
share
such
materials
with
the
public
highly
improper.
The
motion
attached
a
letter
from
Trump’s
attorney
Todd
Blanche,
in
his
usual
incendiary
style,
screeching
that
“Smith
lacks
authority
under
our
Constitution
to
issue
a
report
because
he
was
not
validly
appointed,
and
the
plain
terms
of
the
permanent
indefinite
appropriation
that
he
has
pillaged
for
more
than
$20
million
clearly
do
not
apply
to
his
politically-motivated
work.”
“The
release
of
any
confidential
report
prepared
by
this
out-of-control
private
citizen
unconstitutionally
posing
as
a
prosecutor
would
be
nothing
more
than
a
lawless
political
stunt,
designed
to
politically
harm
President
Trump
and
justify
the
huge
sums
of
taxpayer
money
Smith
unconstitutionally
spent
on
his
failed
and
dismissed
cases,”
he
went
on.
“Under
such
circumstances,
releasing
Smith’s
report
is
obviously
not
in
the
public
interest—particularly
in
light
of
President
Trump’s
commanding
victory
in
the
election
and
the
sensitive
nature
of
the
ongoing
transition
process.”
Shortly
after,
Trump
himself
moved
to
intervene
before
Judge
Cannon,
either
as
an
interested
party
or
a
friend
of
the
court,
he
cares
not
which.
He’d
like
everything
the
henchmen
asked
for,
plus
a
command
that
“following
full
briefing,
order
Smith
not
to
transmit
the
Report
to
the
Attorney
General,
and
order
the
Attorney
General
not
to
issue
any
aspect
of
Smith’s
missive
to
the
public.”
Meanwhile
at
the
Eleventh
Circuit,
which
would
appear
to
have
jurisdiction
over
this
matter
since
Judge
Cannon’s
dismissal
has
been
appealed,
the
henchmen
brought
a
motion
suggesting
that
the
appeals
court
might
like
to
step
back
and
let
Aileen
deliver
the
kill
shot.
If
the
district
court
does
not
take
action
on
Defendants’
emergency
request
within
24
hours,
Defendants
will
notify
the
Court.
Relatedly,
under
United
States
v.
Ellsworth,
814
F.2d
613,
614
(11th
Cir.
1987),
this
Court
may
now
relinquish
jurisdiction
to
the
district
court
so
that
further
proceedings
may
take
place
in
the
interest
of
judicial
economy
and
to
avoid
the
duplication
of
judicial
effort.
Hence,
Defendants
further
move
to
remand
to
the
district
court
for
consideration
of
whether
the
disqualified
Special
Counsel
may
lawfully
transmit
the
Final
Report—and,
if
so,
what
material
in
the
Final
Report
must
be
protected,
at
the
very
least
while
the
criminal
case
is
pending.
After
which
Judge
Cannon
summarily
granted
the
injunction,
without
even
bothering
to
pretend
to
go
through
the
four-factor
test
for
irreparable
harm,
likelihood
of
success,
etc.
She
simply
gestured
in
the
direction
of
“irreparable
harm
arising
from
the
circumstances
as
described
in
the
current
record
in
this
emergency
posture”
and
enjoined
the
DOJ
and
Attorney
General
Garland
from
releasing
the
report
to
anyone
outside
the
executive
branch.
Her
order
purports
to
restrain
release
of
the
entire
report,
even
the
parts
pertaining
to
crimes
committed
in
the
DC
Circuit,
where
special
counsels
are
decidedly
not
unlegal.
She
even
reserved
the
right
to
take
another
crack
at
it
after
the
appeals
court
weighs
in,
adding
that
“This
Order
remains
in
effect
until
three
days
after
resolution
by
the
Eleventh
Circuit
of
the
Emergency
Motion,
unless
the
Eleventh
Circuit
orders
otherwise.”
That
would
appear
to
contradict
settled
law,
since
the
special
counsel
regs
mandate
that,
at
the
conclusion
of
his
investigation,
the
SC
“shall
provide
the
Attorney
General
with
a
confidential
report
explaining
the
prosecution
or
declination
decisions
reached,”
and
“The
Attorney
General
will
notify
the
Chairman
and
Ranking
Minority
Member
of
the
Judiciary
Committees
of
each
House
of
Congress,
with
an
explanation
for
each
action.”
But
Judge
Cannon,
who
invented
a
whole
new
theory
of
jurisdiction
so
that
Trump
could
challenge
the
warrant
to
search
Mar-a-Lago,
has
never
been
one
to
concern
herself
with
such
niceties.
It
appears
that
we’ll
soon
find
out
whether
the
Eleventh
Circuit
cares
about
such
niceties,
since
it’s
ordered
the
DOJ
to
respond
by
10
a.m.
tomorrow.
They
kicked
Cannon
to
the
curb
last
time.
Let’s
see
if
they’ll
rouse
themselves
to
do
it
again.
US
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US
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