Cannon gives Smith a "stark choice": reveal secrets to jury or acquit tfg

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Monday March 18, 2024 · 9:24 PM PDT

2024/03/18 · 21:24

The Daily Beast reports (via MS) Mar-a-Lago Judge’s Stark Ruling: Jury Sees Secret Files or Trump Wins:

In coming up with how to explain the nation’s complex national security restrictions to jurors who will ultimately determine whether Trump is guilty, Cannon came up with a scheme that would make federal prosecutors the most uncomfortable possible.

Cannon’s evening order alerted federal prosecutors and Trump’s legal team that they “must engage with the following competing scenarios” when considering whether Trump can be charged with “unauthorized possession”: Either “a jury is permitted to examine” every record a former president swipes and claims as “personal” to determine whether it is, or jurors must be told that “a president has sole authority… to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency.”

Politico:

“There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it,” Trump said. “You're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified, even by thinking about it.”

Is this as insane as it seems? According to the Daily Beast article, the ruling is appealable to the 11th Circuit. Is this Smith’s chance to finally ask for Cannon’s removal?

Edit: The legal experts who have weighed in on Cannon’s order seem more concerned about Cannon making the Presidential Records Act (rather than the Espionage Act) the issue and letting jurors decide if documents have been classified correctly, than they are concerned about the security of classified documents made available to jurors.

NYT reports tfg stole docs to trade for others he believed disproved campaign's Russia ties

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Saturday October 08, 2022 · 8:10 AM PDT

2022/10/08 · 08:10

NY Times reporting via Raw Story

Trump plotted to trade Mar-a-Lago files for 'sensitive documents' about his 2016 campaign Russia ties

According to new reporting from the New York Times, Donald Trump told aides he wanted to make a deal with the National Archives to return the documents and files he whisked away to his Mar-a-Lago resort in exchange for "sensitive" documents he believes prove his 2016 campaign did not conspire with the Russians.

As the Time's Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt wrote, the former president pressed aides to lie about what he took and was hiding, thus also putting them -- and his attorneys -- in legal jeopardy.

The sole motive? A red herring? One of many ends?

Australian PM Albanese discovers ex-PM Morrison is secretly holding multiple cabinet positions

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Monday August 15, 2022 · 7:40 PM PDT

2022/08/15 · 19:40

From the Guardian:

Morrison appointed to five additional ministries, Albanese says

Anthony Albanese says Scott Morrison was appointed to five additional ministries, including treasury and home affairs:

“I can say that today, I have been informed by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet that between March 2020 in May 2021, the prime minister Scott Morrison was appointed to five additional portfolios.

In addition to his appointment as the head of prime minister and cabinet.

He was appointed to administer the Department of Health on the 14 March 2020.

The Department of Finance on the 30 March 2020.

The Department of Home Affairs on the 6 May 2021.

The Department of the Treasury on six May 2021.

And the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources on the 15 April 2021.”

[And from a prior update]:

Moving on to questions from reporters, and Albanese has gone on to express his disbelief at the way in which the former government operated:

“I cannot conceive of the mindset that has created this. I cannot conceive of the way that the government has functioned in a way where they said that ‘I’m the prime minister of Australia and I’d also like to be in charge of health, finance, treasury, industry, science, home affairs, resources.’ I cannot conceive of how that occurs.

And I cannot conceive of how a cabinet allows that to happen.”

This seems quite bizarre and verging on autocratic. Having seen no coverage of this news under the tag “Australia”, I’m putting this diary up hoping that someone with a good understanding of Australian politics and law will explain its significance in detail, either here or in another diary (in which case I’ll delete this one). Thanks.

McCabe just fired by Sessions

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Friday March 16, 2018 · 7:06 PM PDT

2018/03/16 · 19:06

according to NPR.

Trump ordered Mueller fired, then backed off

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Thursday January 25, 2018 · 5:34 PM PST

2018/01/25 · 17:34

MSN reporting “Trump ordered Mueller fired, but backed off when Counsel threatened to quit.”

No details yet.MSN

Wis Supreme's conflict of interest

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Tuesday December 20, 2011 · 11:36 AM PST

2011/12/20 · 11:36

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on the relationship between Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman and the law firm Michael Best and Friedrich. That firm has provided free counsel to Gableman, who has ruled favorably for their clients in cases before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, including the decision allowing Governor Scott Walker's anti-collective bargaining law to stand.

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Thursday June 21, 2007 · 5:59 PM PDT

2007/06/21 · 17:59

More DOJ and White House documents regarding the US Attorney firings have been made available, rather belatedly, as Monica Goodling's lawyer explains after the jump. (I'm putting this up to encourage discussion by those more informed than I am. I'll delete it if no one is interested, as my contribution is miniscule.)

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Wednesday December 28, 2005 · 8:04 PM PST

2005/12/28 · 20:04

Solicitor General Paul Clement today asked the Supreme Court to allow the transfer of Jose Padilla to civilian custody a few days after the request was denied by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Padilla has been held since 2002. The reasons given for his civilian detention included none of the reasons initially given by the administration for his detention, including the claim that he was planning on using a dirty bomb. Read More

Abramoff bought positive coverage from "scholars" at Cato and the Institute for Policy Innovation

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Saturday December 17, 2005 · 1:39 AM PST

2005/12/17 · 01:39

The New York Times reports that Business Week Online (Op-eds For Sale) has discovered that two "scholars", at Cato and the Institute for Policy Innovation, have accepted payoffs from Jack Abramoff to produce stories supportive of Abramoff's lobbying goals. Read More

Fitz has unredacted Italian Niger forgery report

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Wednesday October 19, 2005 · 1:14 AM PDT

2005/10/19 · 01:14

Who forged the papers upon which Bush based his infamous 16-word claim that Saddam was seeking uranium from Africa, and that Joseph Wilson debunked? Justin Raimondo reports a new (though not entirely unexpected) revelation in the case, in the context of Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation of the retaliatory leaking of Wilson's wife's identity as a CIA operative. Read More

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Cannon gives Smith a "stark choice": reveal secrets to jury or acquit tfg

NYT reports tfg stole docs to trade for others he believed disproved campaign's Russia ties

Australian PM Albanese discovers ex-PM Morrison is secretly holding multiple cabinet positions

McCabe just fired by Sessions

Trump ordered Mueller fired, then backed off

Wis Supreme's conflict of interest

New Goodling document dump

Bush admin asks SCOTUS to overrule 4th Circ. on Padilla

Abramoff bought positive coverage from "scholars" at Cato and the Institute for Policy Innovation

Fitz has unredacted Italian Niger forgery report