Megathread: Federal Judge Overseeing Stolen Classified Documents Case Against Former President Trump Dismisses Indictment on the Grounds that Special Prosecutor Was Improperly Appointed

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1. Dude was caught with the goddamn documents in his goddamn cheesy old folks home and he gets away with it. Fucking unreal.

2. This is, weirdly, the ideal outcome. If she’d dismissed it after jeopardy had attached, it couldn’t be retried. Jack Smith can now appeal this and certainly win, and it’ll go to a new judge.

3. Jack Smith will file 11th circuit for appeal; the 11th Circuit has been brutal to Cannon before with the Special Master ruling, I fully expect she will be overturned again.

   Edit – Potential for combined motion: Appeal and demand recusal.

   Edit 2 – This makes it even more imperative that Trump is defeated at the ballot box; vote in November 5 down ballot Dem. I know most of you want Biden replaced; however, chances are he will be the nominee. We must vote for him and every Dem on the ticket.

   Edit 3 – She issued this today to get it hidden in the news from Trumps assassination attempt and RNC day 1; I believe this backfired and will be at the top of the headlines.

4. Isn’t this the best case so Jack Smith can finally appeal her ruling and request a new judge?

5. I naively held onto the value that “nobody is above the law” for such an embarrassingly long part of my life. No longer will I live under that illusion.

6. Just an insane level of corruption from the judge. This was a clear cut case. Just ridiculous. On the first day of the RNC too, how convenient. She’s working for Trump.

7. If there was any more clear evidence that we have a two tiered justice system and corrupt judges on the bench this is it. He was dead to rights. This is a slap in the face of the entire country.

8. DoJ will appeal and Jack Smith will probably file to get Cannon removed from the case. Eventually the case will end up in the Supreme Court.

9. This is insanity.

   She will be overturned by the appellate court.

   She may suffer consequences for this, and she’s pushing so hard and obviously in favor of MAGADaddy that she’s making herself famous in the worst way possible.

   She thinks she’s being smart by doing it now when the media is still raving about shooting, but things don’t work this way.

10. This may backfire. Delaying the trial just leaves the case and Trump’s guilt up in the air. Outright dismissing it just makes everyone go WTF.

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12. Judges this corrupt should spend the rest of their lives in prison.

13. Clarence Thomas did this, on purpose, just to help Trump. She cites Thomas multiple times in this ruling as justification, but Thomas wrote those things in a lone concurrence on a completely unrelated case. That should not be how SCOTUS works and is obvious corruption. Impeach him.

14. Every person who works in the cleared space knows for a fact that they would have already been tried, convicted, and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years by this point if they’d done what he has done. Some of the SCI level documents have yet to be recovered.

    Congress doesn’t do anything. Every level of the judiciary has been captured by corporate/right wing interests including the Supreme Court. This country has been fully captured by powerful interests and the law means absolutely nothing to them.

    If you’re a regular citizen, look out though! They will drop the full power of the Federal government on you if you step out of line.

15. Threw it out on a technicality — that also throws out 30+ years of legal precedent. This is so nakedly corrupt and purely intended to delay the trial until Trump can be re-elected. Truly disgusting.

16. We are in the middle of a judicial coup d’état.

17. Sure love it when a Trump appointed judge gets to decide this case and ignore the facts before em.

    Corruption at it’s fucking finest. Our legal system has been a joke for a long time now.

18. It’s official: Presidents can horde top secret classified documents at their house

19. I hope this will be immediately appealed and that Cannon will be removed from the bench.

20. As a Vet that worked with Classifed Documents this Fucking infuriates me more than the immunity ruling. I almost got fucked for mishandling a Document and I have heard of Fellow individuals that got jail time for doing something minor with a doc, BUT this Outrageous guy has ALL OF THIS and gets off. WTF mate

21. Ok, time for a Biden “official act” with a warrant to search MAL and the rest of Trump properties top to bottom for any remaining classified documents.

    Appeal the ruling and have that fucking criminal Cannon removed from the case.

22. This is why Mitch focused so heavily on the courts. Even out of power, you hold all the power. Hilary losing in 2016 looks more and more like a defining moment in American history.

23. We are seeing in real time what the power of money and having a cult willing to do anything for you can do to a person.

    Trump is literally above the law. If he is put back in power we are all fucked because he will do whatever he wants to do, he’ll sell us out to whoever he wants, he’ll order the executions of anyone he wants to. He’ll be an emperor and this legal system which is supposed to be part of the checks and balances will allow him to do it.

24. This is going to be appealed. She definitely overplayed her hand here, especially given the appellate court has already slapped her down several times.

25. I can’t imagine Jack Smith didn’t see this coming. This will get appealed and hopefully have her investigated and removed from the case.

26. The timing, alone, shows how politically motivated this decision is.

27. These are the real indicators of our country crumbling, not all of the boogeyman bullshit conservatives make up.

28. Ken Starr as special counsel to investigate Clinton was fine, but special counsel to investigate Trump is unconstitutional – according to the GOP and its appointed judicial hacks.

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30. So fucking corrupt.

31. I think it’s safe to say the sympathy people may have had for this crook from this weekend has been dissolved after this. This is blatant corruption.

32. The Trump appointed judge said Jack Smith was improperly appointed lmfao

33. They said you have documents in your possession that are illegal for you to keep.

    He said I don’t have them.

    They went to his house. He did have them.

    It’s the most open and shut case I can think of, but it’s being dismissed because there’s no accountability for Donald Trump. At this point I’m starting to think that the best we can hope for is a Constitutional Monarchy.

34. This is settled law. Special prosecutors have been upheld. So this will go to the Supreme Court where they will eliminate special prosecutors in another blow to democracy.

35. I’m so fucking sick of living through historically awful times.

    I just want to go to work, come home to my family, and enjoy my spare time without wondering what fresh hell the country is in for. I hate this.