Cannon seemed to invite Trump to raise the argument again at trial, where Jack Smith canāt appeal, expert says
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected one of former President Donald Trumpās motions to dismiss his classified documents case.
Cannon shot down Trumpās motion arguing that the Espionage Act is unconstitutionally vague when applied to a former president.
Cannon after a daylong hearingĀ issued an orderĀ saying some of Trumpās arguments warrant āserious considerationā but wrote that no judge has ever found the statute unconstitutional. Cannon said that ārather than prematurely decide now,ā she denied the motion so it could be āraised as appropriate in connection with jury-instruction briefing and/or other appropriate motions.ā
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āThe Judgeās ruling was virtually incomprehensible, even to those of us who speak ālegalā as our native language,ā former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote onĀ Substack, calling part of her ruling ādeliberately dumb.ā
āThe good news here is temporary,ā Vance wrote. āItās what Iād call an ugly win for the government. The Judge dismissed the vagueness argumentābut just for today. She did it āwithout prejudice,ā which means that Trumpās lawyers could raise the argument again later in the case. In fact, the Judge seemed to do just that in her order, essentially inviting the defense to raise the argument again at trial.ā
Remember when Hilary threw the election away by not even campaigning in what were otherwise secure democratic states that she lost, and how she spent so much time giving secret talks to rich people and corporations behind security and white noise generators, and generally did everything she could to be unlikable? and if she had put in even the slighest modicum of effort, sheād be the president we complained about instead of the Trump horror show despite of all of Russias interference and bullshit?
I mean all of that might be true but I still put a lot of blame on the assholes who voted for trump.
Sometimes we act like only Democrats have agency, and Republicans are just like a force of nature. Like a fire that burns without thought or a bear that mauls because thatās what bears do. But theyāre still people and they could have chosen something else.
Trump supporters are at fault.
āClinton didnāt come to my state and make me feel specialā is not an acceptable justification for supporting the catastrofuck that is trump.
Its not āClinton didnt come to my state and make me feel specialā
its
āClinton didnt go to these states, to engage with her base and share with them her vision, plans, goals, etc, Which allowed just enough to be swayed by those that didā
To be fair, thatās mostly what her campaign manager was supposed to work out.
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If this was 1840 Iād be more convinced. We have the internet. Weāve had radio for a hundred years. You shouldnāt need to go to a rally to know what a major politicanās visions, plans, goals, etc, are.
āI felt ignoredā is a stupid emotional response, but I can understand it, kind of. Sometimes Iām petty, too. Feeling so ignored that you vote for trump is inexcusable, though. I donāt think Iād excuse shirking your civic duty here, either.
You are sure hung up on this whole āI was ignoredā thing.
Are you, specifically, upset that cause you felt ignored?
Thatās what I took from the āshe didnāt come to my state and share her vision with me, specificallyā thing. Or the related "I donāt like being called flyover country ", I guess. Maybe I just donāt get the people in question.
I live in a major city and donāt feel politically ignored. A little, what do you call it, victim of a tyranny of a minority, sometimes, what with like North and South Dakota having senators.
Remember when the party fucked over Bernie for an institutionalized candidate who no-one liked instead?
And if you want to argue that they didnāt have a choice, itās the difference of 300 delegates in the face of internal organizational opinion that you control. You canāt maintain that it wasnāt a choice. The DNC chose Hilary.
How idiotic can you get? If no one liked the nominee she wouldnāt have had the most votes.
By āDNCā you mean the voters?
Exactly. Stop pretending it wasnāt the voterās choice. That is Trump level bullshit. There just wasnāt enough of us voting Bernie.
You sweet summer child