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Judge Cannon dismisses case against Trump over Special Counsel appointment

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The Trump legal team motion before Aileen Cannon has now been upheld, with the dismissal of the entire case against Trump in the Documents case in the Florida District Court, with a 93 page decision from Cannon.  

Numerous motions to dismiss cases under the idea that Special Counsel appointments are unconstitutional have been filed ever since the Independent Council statute expired in 1999. None of them have ever before been upheld. 

Technically the DOJ could dismiss the case in the Southern District in Florida, and refile it in a different venue, for instance in the District of Columbia. But Chuck Rosenberg on MSNBC this morning thought that latter thing, seen as “judge shopping” on the part of the DOJ, would be a bad move. 

Months if not a year or more before DOJ will get an appeal of this decision from Judge Cannon through the Appellate courts. 

Trump has, at least for now, slipped out of facing Justice for his actions regarding National Security Documents.

One has to wonder if the Hunter Biden legal team will now appeal his conviction on the same basis which Cannon dismissed the case against Trump. Since David Weiss was the special counsel who oversaw the case against Hunter Biden. 

From the nearly dead Birdhouse by Steve Vladeck 

https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck University of Texas at Austin Law School  Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts Governor Allan Shivers Endowed Faculty Development Fund Professor

This ruling (which is wrong six ways from Sunday) can (and will) be immediately appealed to the Eleventh Circuit. To me, the only question is whether the Special Counsel also asks for the case to be reassigned on remand… https://t.co/GMoZahpiiA

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) July 15, 2024

a message I can agree with 

Trump appoints a judge. Trump commits a crime. Judge SHREDS CONSTITUTION in order to protect Trump from prosecution. The Republican Party is literally destroying our legal system in order to protect the felon running for President.

— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) July 15, 2024


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