Summary

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s criminal cases.

The injunction will last until three days after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rules on a related case involving Trump co-defendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira.

Nauta and De Oliveira argue that releasing the report could jeopardize their right to a fair trial.

Cannon, who previously ruled Smith’s appointment unconstitutional, issued the order to “preserve the status quo” pending appellate decisions.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Ok and I personally think that attitude is gonna help Republicans memory hole how things actually worked in the past by throwing up your hands and giving up instead of trying to find out details.

    But you do you man, I’m still gonna at least try to find out things, even if the only thing it helps is having one more person remember how systems were supposed to function and continues talking about it to others.

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      I hear you, and I understand where you’re coming from. But there literally isn’t a legal argument for any of it. The SCOTUS has been corrupted and has invalidated their own credibility, and corrupt judges and politicians have been handing down legally indefensible rulings for years. Their justification is “fuck you. What are you gonna do about it?”

      Legal systems must be consistent to be valid. Selective application of legal reasoning has exposed our courts to malfeasance. It is rotten at the core, and any justice handed down is unintended coincidence.

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      The reason is that many people are not doing their jobs. Cut and dry end of story.

      I both understand and empathize with your search for meaning here, but that is the meaning.

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        I understand and empathize with the perspectives in reply to this as well, I just think its defeatist thinking at a moment when feelings of defeat are rather unhelpful to any cause trying to protect people, even if very valid to feel.