Smith's patience has expired.

[berg80]

Smith has mental issues and has been treated for depression.

As the Government has previously explained, there is no colorable argument that any of the documents charged in the Superseding Indictment is a personal record under the PRA—i.e., a document “of a purely private or nonpublic character which do[es] not relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President."

Character assassination has no effect on the facts.

 

[berg80]

I agree! She also has had several hearings, some going back to January, where she STILL has not ruled on ANY of them! That's what you call purposely slow walking....to help Trump!

And all the while he whines to The Following about how he is not treated fairly by the judicial system when in fact he has been treated with undo deference.

 

[Lisa558]

Actually, this is what election interference looks like.

View attachment 927056

Nope. That’s a protest that got out of hand.

 

[CowboyTed]

Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Done With Judge Aileen Cannon And Lets It Show

In a new filing that bluntly confronts U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, Special Counsel Jack Smith takes a new tone of incredulousness and disdain for her mishandling of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The issue at hand is her failure to have yet ruled on Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss based on his inane, unprecedented, and counterfactual reading of the Presidential Records Act. Instead of rejecting the argument out of hand, Cannon not only is entertaining it but ordered the two sides to propose jury instructions based on two different deeply flawed interpretations of the PRA.

That set up an nearly impossible challenge for Smith: How do you draft jury instructions that are so wrong on the law without looking like an idiot, undermining your own case, and pissing of the judge?

The answer: You can’t.

So Smith went all in, no longer trying to placate, educate, or hand-hold Cannon.

Smith ripped her interpretations of the PRA: “both of the Court’s scenarios are fundamentally flawed and any jury instructions that reflect those scenarios would be error.” He said her “legal premise is wrong” and her requested jury instructions “would distort the trial.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith Loses Patience With Judge Aileen Cannon

Not a great idea to antagonize a Trump toady but some things need to be done. She's made it clear she is unqualified to be on this case from the standpoint of experience, an understanding of the law, and a lack of impartiality. Good for Smith that he has called her out.

I can't see Cannon last in this case...

She is clearly way out of her depth... Honestly she should have recused herself on the first day, lacks experience for something this high profile.

She is looking to overruled for the second time in the same case (or almost the same case)... Your position is pretty untenable..

 

[The Duke]

I can't see Cannon last in this case...

She is clearly way out of her depth... Honestly she should have recused herself on the first day, lacks experience for something this high profile.

She is looking to overruled for the second time in the same case (or almost the same case)... Your position is pretty untenable..

Actually yours is, oh ye in the birdcat seat.

 

[CowboyTed]

Smith is just another liberal rag hack. He's had multiple decisions overturned.

Jack Smith doesn't make decisions, Judges do...

So how did he have them overturned...

You also accused of being a Liberal. Can you show proof?

Jack Smith has only said that his job is to prosecute Criminals... At the moment he is in court with Trump... Considering Smiths conviction rate, Trump is going to be found guilty...

Trump is a Fucking Criminal, it is only a matter of time...

Trump is running for President because he knows he will loose in Court and be a convicted criminal. He is not out to clear his name and be exonerated. He wants to stop the prosecution. His tactic now is delay until he becomes President...

 

[CowboyTed]

Actually yours is, oh ye in the birdcat seat.

You know the 11th can remove her from the case...

This isn't about bias but she is just incompetent...

She is getting embarrassed on a daily basis by legal analysts, absolutely pummelled even by retired conservative judges...]

The 11th know this and it is starting to make a mockery of them in the legal profession... The 11th is a conservative court but it is made up of serious judges...

 

[The Duke]

Jack Smith doesn't make decisions, Judges do...

So how did he have them overturned...

You also accused of being a Liberal. Can you show proof?

Jack Smith has only said that his job is to prosecute Criminals... At the moment he is in court with Trump... Considering Smiths conviction rate, Trump is going to be found guilty...

Trump is a Fucking Criminal, it is only a matter of time...

Trump is running for President because he knows he will loose in Court and be a convicted criminal. He is not out to clear his name and be exonerated. He wants to stop the prosecution. His tactic now is delay until he becomes President...

Apparently you are ignorant of Smith's overturn rate and unscrupulous ethics.

He's the slimiest of the slime if ever there was slime.

 

[marvin martian]

Cannon should smack Smith down with a gag order, just sayin.

Or just remove him from the case and recommend his disbarment.

 

[BlindBoo]

Tell us the story of how Trump carjacked the Secret Service on 1/6! That's a great "factual case" of yours.

That Neo-GOP talking point lie is immaterial to the Classified Documents case. Even the incompetent Cannon knows that.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Smith has not said a thing, other than in written legal court documents.

You can't get him on a gag order, since he's not talking..

You mean because he is communicating his hateful rhetoric through a perfectly legal channel he cannot be barred from that speech? You’re right!

Same for Donald Trump.

 

[berg80]

Apparently you are ignorant of Smith's overturn rate and unscrupulous ethics.

He's the slimiest of the slime if ever there was slime.

See post #81.

 

[berg80]

You mean because he is communicating his hateful rhetoric through a perfectly legal channel he cannot be barred from that speech? You’re right!

Same for Donald Trump.

Is that all you have? A false analogy between Trump's unhinged attacks on the judiciary and Smith's carefully crafted evisceration of Cannon's ignorance of the law while calling her out for her delaying tactics to help Trump avoid justice?

 

[0311]

Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Done With Judge Aileen Cannon And Lets It Show

In a new filing that bluntly confronts U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, Special Counsel Jack Smith takes a new tone of incredulousness and disdain for her mishandling of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The issue at hand is her failure to have yet ruled on Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss based on his inane, unprecedented, and counterfactual reading of the Presidential Records Act. Instead of rejecting the argument out of hand, Cannon not only is entertaining it but ordered the two sides to propose jury instructions based on two different deeply flawed interpretations of the PRA.

That set up an nearly impossible challenge for Smith: How do you draft jury instructions that are so wrong on the law without looking like an idiot, undermining your own case, and pissing of the judge?

The answer: You can’t.

So Smith went all in, no longer trying to placate, educate, or hand-hold Cannon.

Smith ripped her interpretations of the PRA: “both of the Court’s scenarios are fundamentally flawed and any jury instructions that reflect those scenarios would be error.” He said her “legal premise is wrong” and her requested jury instructions “would distort the trial.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith Loses Patience With Judge Aileen Cannon

Not a great idea to antagonize a Trump toady but some things need to be done. She's made it clear she is unqualified to be on this case from the standpoint of experience, an understanding of the law, and a lack of impartiality. Good for Smith that he has called her out.

Personally, I think Special Prosecutor Smith was giving Cannon enough rope to hang herself and she has done a great job of doing so.

 

[berg80]

Almost from the moment she was assigned the case in June, Judge Cannon, who was appointed by Mr. Trump in his waning days in office, has handled the proceeding in an unorthodox manner.

She has put off making several legal and logistical decisions. And she has spent time at hearings entertaining a series of unusual arguments by Mr. Trump’s lawyers that many federal judges would have rejected out of hand.

The legal gamesmanship she has encouraged over how to handle Mr. Trump’s Presidential Records Act defense is all the more bizarre because the argument itself is legally dubious.

The act was put in place after the Watergate scandal not to permit presidents to unilaterally designate government documents — let alone those containing sensitive state secrets — as their own personal property, but precisely for the opposite reason: to ensure that most records from a president’s time in office remain in the possession of the government.

Frustrated Prosecutors Ask Trump Documents Judge to Act on Key Claim

The push for a quick decision on one of the former president’s most far-fetched claims is an unusual and risky move in a case Judge Aileen Cannon has allowed to become bogged down.

www.nytimes.com

The Times is being kind by calling her methods "unorthodox." They indicate a combination of bias and incompetence.

 

[berg80]

Personally, I think Special Prosecutor Smith was giving Cannon enough rope to hang herself and she has done a great job of doing so.

Even if that dubious assertion were true it does nothing to advance the cause of justice by having the trial take place before the election. Something Trump (and Cannon) want to avoid.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Is that all you have? A false analogy between Trump's unhinged attacks on the judiciary and Smith's carefully crafted evisceration of Cannon's ignorance of the law while calling her out for her delaying tactics to help Trump avoid justice?

They are similar in two ways:

1. Cannon and the anti-Trump judges are receiving threats, which may be associated with the words Trump and Smith are putting out.

2. Both have a perfect legal right to put out the words they are saying, Trump because his words are protected political speech, and Smith because he fulfilling his role of prosecutor, however unfairly and incompetently.

 

[kyzr]

Even if that dubious assertion were true it does nothing to advance the cause of justice by having the trial take place before the election. Something Trump (and Cannon) want to avoid.

So you're in favor of a Banana Republic instead of a democracy. Noted.

 

[Independent thinker]

Special Counsel Jack Smith Is Done With Judge Aileen Cannon And Lets It Show

In a new filing that bluntly confronts U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, Special Counsel Jack Smith takes a new tone of incredulousness and disdain for her mishandling of the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The issue at hand is her failure to have yet ruled on Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss based on his inane, unprecedented, and counterfactual reading of the Presidential Records Act. Instead of rejecting the argument out of hand, Cannon not only is entertaining it but ordered the two sides to propose jury instructions based on two different deeply flawed interpretations of the PRA.

That set up an nearly impossible challenge for Smith: How do you draft jury instructions that are so wrong on the law without looking like an idiot, undermining your own case, and pissing of the judge?

The answer: You can’t.

So Smith went all in, no longer trying to placate, educate, or hand-hold Cannon.

Smith ripped her interpretations of the PRA: “both of the Court’s scenarios are fundamentally flawed and any jury instructions that reflect those scenarios would be error.” He said her “legal premise is wrong” and her requested jury instructions “would distort the trial.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith Loses Patience With Judge Aileen Cannon

Not a great idea to antagonize a Trump toady but some things need to be done. She's made it clear she is unqualified to be on this case from the standpoint of experience, an understanding of the law, and a lack of impartiality. Good for Smith that he has called her out.

Let me ask you this, who has more power a prosecutor or a judge?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

So, let's see the "documentation".

And Trump supporters are just as bad as Cannnon.