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Georgia court of appeals indefinitely pauses the election subversion conspiracy case against Donald Trump
Zachary Cohen Sara Murray Updated 5:44 PM EDT, Wed June 5, 2024
A Georgia appeals court has halted the election subversion conspiracy case against Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants – a massive victory for the former president seeking to push further legal issues until 2025 if he can’t beat them altogether.
The new order filed on Wednesday from the Georgia Court of Appeals is the latest indication that a trial in the state-level Georgia election subversion case will not occur before the 2024 presidential election.The court said the case will be on hold until a panel of judges rules on whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be disqualified.
The appeals court is expected to rule on the disqualification issue by March 2025, though it could issue a ruling sooner. Several sources close to the case have told CNN that the timeline remains very uncertain.
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee had initially allowed proceedings in his courtroom to continue as the appeals court weighed an appeal of his decision to allow Willis to remain on the case.
A spokesperson for Willis’ office said they can’t comment on the appeals court’s order at this point. The DA can ask the appeals court to fast track a decision in this matter if it chooses.
The appeals court’s decision underscores Trump’s series of successes in his long-running strategy to put prosecutors on the defensive, attack them in the public sphere and challenge them in court.
Trump and some of his co-defendants in the sprawling racketeering case have been trying to get Willis disqualified from the case because of a romantic relationship she had with Nathan Wade, the special prosecutor she hired to help handle the case. The defendants argued that Willis financially benefited from the relationship with Wade, who defense attorneys say covered several vacations for the pair.
In March, after what amounted to a mini-trial where attorneys for Trump and his co-defendants sought to prove their case against Willis and Wade, McAfee found there was not enough evidence to firmly prove Willis financially benefited from the relationship.
Willis’ testimony in televised proceedings put her personal life in the spotlight, turning discussion away from the charges Trump and others face in Georgia.
The judge ultimately decided Willis would be allowed to continue to helm the case if Wade stepped down, which he later did.
Steve Sadow, Trump’s lead defense counsel in Georgia, said the ruling was proper.
“The Georgia Court of Appeals has properly stayed all proceedings against President Trump in the trial court pendingits decision on our interlocutory appeal which argues thecase should be dismissed and Fulton County DA Willis should be disqualified for her misconduct,” Sadow said in a statement.
Like the Georgia case, the Florida documents case has no set trial date.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/05/politics/georgia-trump-fani-willis-trial-delay/index.html
pdf order attached
Judge Aileen Cannon rips up court schedule in Mar-a-Lago case in ways that benefit Trump
(The Judge is supposed to protect the defendant’s rights! Apparently CNN doesn’t know that, since no of the opinion are from judges, they mean nothing)
Dan Berman Katelyn Polantz 5:40 PM EDT, Wed June 5, 20241/2
Judge Aileen Cannon is again ripping up the court schedule in former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case – pushing some of the legal questions that have been before her for months even further down the road.
Cannon is planning on holding a sprawling hearing on Trump’s request to declare Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel invalid, signaling she could be more willing than any other trial judge to veto the special prosecutor’s authority.
The planned hearing also adds a new, unusual twist in the federal criminal case against the former president:Cannon on Tuesday said that a variety of political partisans and constitutional scholars not otherwise involved with the case can join in the oral arguments later this month.
It’s an extraordinary elevation of arguments in a criminal case – filed a year ago this week – that likely won’t see trial until next year, if at all.
Wednesday, Cannon went further, adding a hearing on a gag order request from prosecutors to limit Trump’s rhetoric about law enforcement and allotting more time to hear arguments on the special counsel issue.
Cannon willhear arguments on those issues the week of June 21, as well as on the effort by Trump to throw out evidence in his case that was gathered by the FBI in its 2022 search of Mar-a-Lago or provided by his former attorney Evan Corcoran to a grand jury.
At the same time, she delayed other hearings without setting a new date.The calendar shuffling is the latest example of Cannon’s approach so far to the national security case: scheduling hours in court for arguments that other courts have mostly denied, and pushing off resolution of various legal matters for months.
The delays are a significant legal win for Trump, who also scored a major victory in Georgia on Wednesday, where the state court of appeals put the election subversion conspiracy case there on hold indefinitely.
Challenges to special counsel’s office have failed nationwide
Similar challenges from Trump and other high-level targets of special counsel probes have flopped from coast to coast in recent years: Hunter Biden’s attorney didn’t get anywhere with judges in Los Angeles and Delaware; Paul Manafort’s arguments fell flat when the former Trump campaign chairman challenged special counsel Robert Mueller’s authority; and Andrew Miller, a former associate of Roger Stone, also lost his challenge to Mueller’s authority.
Even with other federal trial-level judges allowing special counsels’ criminal prosecutions, Cannon could rule differently.
Cannon’s signal of willingness to entertain challenges to the special counsel comes in the same week Republicans are bearing down on Attorney General Merrick Garland for his use of special counsels.
The issue, now before Cannon in the Southern District of Florida federal court, is likely to remain in the political debate at least until Cannon holds a hearing on the legal power of the special counsel to prosecute a defendant, on June 21.
Cannon has already taken a drastically different tack from other trial-level federal judges who have handled criminal cases charged by recent special counsel’s offices – of which there have been five since Trump became president.
While others have moved swiftly to trial – including special counsel David Weiss trying his case against Hunter Biden in Delaware this week, eight months after indictment – Cannon has moved slowly on pre-trial issues from Trump and his two co-defendants. Many of the most substantive legal questions to be decided in the classified records case, which the Justice Department first brought against Trump last June,aren’t yet ripe for a decision.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/cannon-trump-special-counsel-hearing/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
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And it is highly unusual for a federal trial judge to allow a third-party group unaffiliated with a criminal case to argue in court as part of a defendant’s legal challenges to the case itself. That work is essentially reserved for defendants’ teams to bring and argue in courts across the country, opposite Justice Department prosecutors. Allowing third parties to argue in court is even rare in appeals situations.
“The fact these motions are even being entertained with a hearing is itself ridiculous. That third parties are being allowed to opine at the hearing is absurd,”Bradley Moss* (see bio below), a national security law expert based in Washington, DC, told CNN.
But Cannon has been convinced bythree separate groups of lawyers that they should be able to argue before her.Two of those groups support Trump’s position to dismiss the case against him and say the special counsel, for various constitutional reasons, doesn’t have authority to prosecute. A third group says the Department of Justice’s use of a special counsel should be upheld.
Two former Republican-appointed US attorneys general, Edwin Meese and Michael Mukasey, are part of the groups of so-called “friends of the court” that side with Trump and whom Cannon will hear from. The three groups will be allowed to argue, in addition to Justice Department and defendants’ lawyers, for 30 minutes each, according to the court record. (she is freakin brilliant, especially since the SC does this on major cases on Amicus Briefs)
Meese and Mukasey have special insight to share with the judge, they say, given their former roles leading the Justice Department.
Delayed Trump effort to question federal officials
Meanwhile, Cannon on Wednesday delayed a previously scheduled multi-day proceeding whereTrump’s team wanted to question federal government officials under oathabout how they conducted the investigation. (because they lie so much)
Trump’s legal team is angling to convince the judge to force the government to turn over more records from far-flung offices of the executive branch. The special counsel’s office argued to Cannon in person months ago that making federal government officials witnesses at this stage of the case – as Trump wants – would be an unprecedented exploitation of the court.
Cannon still agreed to the hearing Trump wanted. But that hearing is no longer on the schedule.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/cannon-trump-special-counsel-hearing/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc
*Bradley Moss, a national security law expert (not a judgejust a talking head for media, just a critic) Bradley P. Moss is a national security law expert who specializes in litigation on matters relating to national security, federal employment, and security clearance law, as well as the Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act. He is apartner at the Law Office of Mark S. Zaid, P.C
Moss has been quoted in various media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Washington Examiner, Politico, The Federal Times, ClearanceJobs.com, The Atlantic Wire, The Daily Caller, and The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent commentator on national security and legal issues, appearing on print, radio, and cable news.
Moss is a graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law and received his undergraduate degree from The George Washington University. He co-founded the non-partisan National Security and Law Society, Inc., an international non-profit with chapters across the U.S. and the world.
As a national security law expert, Moss has worked with clients in the federal government, media, and defense contracting industry. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the National Military Intelligence Association.
Pray for Judge Cannon
After 1,000 complaints in one week, court no longer accepting ‘orchestrated’ complaints about judge in Trump’s Florida case
Hannah Rabinowitz Updated 10:32 PM EDT, Mon June 3, 2024
A federal appeals court will no longer accept complaints about Aileen Cannon, the judge presiding over the federal criminal case against Donald Trump in Florida, that appear to be part of an “orchestrated campaign.”
The May 22 opinion from the 11th Circuit Judicial Council, which oversees lower courts in Florida, said that since May 16, 2024, the clerk has receivedmore than 1,000 complaints “that raise allegations that are similarto the allegations raised in previous complaints.” The council ordered the court clerk to stop accepting similar complaints.
It’s not clear what exactly started the onslaught of complaints after May 16. Last month, Cannon indefinitely postponed the start of the trial in the Trump case, where he has been accused of mishandling classified documents.
Several complaints against Cannon “question the correctness of her rulings or her delays in issuing rulings” in the classified documents case, the judicial council’s opinion said. Those complaints includedallegations “unsupported by any evidence” thatCannon has an “improper motive in delaying the case,” according to the opinion.
Othercomplaints calledon the 11th Circuit Court’s Chief JudgeWilliam Pryor to remove Cannonfrom the classified documents case – an action that that judicial council said that neither he nor the council could take.
Pryor has considered and dismissed some of the complaints because theydid not provide sufficient evidence that any misconduct by Cannon had occurred, according to the order.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/politics/cannon-orchestrated-complaints-trump
time for the boomerangI didn't listen to him, the arrogance oozes out of all his leviathan pores.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/04/politics/video/james-comey-fbi-director-trump-conviction-jail-hush-money-trial-digvid