Saturday, September 17, 2022

On to the 11th

This will be a test of judicial validity in the US federal court system.
The Justice Department is asking the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta to lift part of an order from Judge Aileen Cannon that bars the government from using classified materials seized from Mar-A-Lago in its investigation and requiring the government to disclose those materials to the special master appointed in the case.

The DOJ is not appealing the entire order establishing the special master process, asking for what it deems "modest but critically important relief."

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The department has not been able to use the seized material in their criminal investigation since Cannon's order to deny the DOJ access to the classified documents and appoint a special master to review the material for any that Trump may be able to assert privilege over,

The 11th Circuit mostly compromises Republican judges, many of whom were appointed by Trump. But Neal Devins of William and Mary School of Law told NPR that while Cannon, a Trump appointee, has been siding with the former president thus far, the judges on the court of appeals may not necessarily follow suit.

  NPR
For the sake of the nation, we hope not.

....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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