Loose Cannon Is Making A Mess Of The Mar-a-Lago Case

[zenicetus]

@enceladus

I’m starting to hate seeing cannon’s picture on this site almost as much as I hate seeing 45-91’s. She has the look of a smirking, self-satisfied zealot.

Same here. Are there no other photos of her in the public domain other than her smirking official headshot that TPM could use?

[txlawyer]

@jnbenson

Probably true, but they gave her a life time appointment once.

Backwater district court bench. They confirm all kinds of buffoons to those seats. Circuit court and (especially) Supreme Court seats are much more precious and vigorously scrutinized. And I imagine trump 2: electric boogaloo would be warned against nominating her.

[zenicetus]

@geographyjones

It’s your definition of religion that is not accurate.
It is, in fact, superficial.

If my definition doesn’t apply, then you’re talking philosophy and not religion.

[josephebacon]

Yes it’s all about her…the Kim Kardashian of the House…

Narcissistic playbook issued to GOPer's staff aims to promote 'celebrity...

[tleopold]

@llwillis

In trying to read Aileen Cannon, consider this. She knows she’s completely out of her league, and is petrified of having to take the MAL case to trial. She will use unappealable scheduling (delay) to the extent it is available to her because she has to avoid the public humiliation of seating a jury and running a trial in real time when her every word and every step is an opportunity to fall on her face in front of the judicial system and the country.

I like that theory. She’s apparently not stupid – for all the idiots who have gotten their degrees from Duke (or U-M Law), you still have to have some brains to get that far – but she is blinkered, and definitely terrified.

And, of course, knowledge of the law does not necessarily make you a good judge.

[fuadreviez]

Yeah, this was my thought. Immediately move for recusal of Cannon, insert anyone else. I have no idea how legal machinations work though.

[stradivarius50t3]

@lastroth

My point is he and she have a checking and/or savings account. They just move the money out the account(s) quickly. And he doesn’t have to report the accounts since they don’t keep $5000 in them.
Does this mean that I believe he has a bunch of cash on hand or in her pocketbook? Nope, but this is an interesting puzzle, right?

Agreed. The money is somewhere, and somewhere is likely not a collection of wide-mouth Ball jars full of Benjamin Franklin portraits buried in the back yard.

[mrf]

Whatever happened to food being a unifying force regardless of race, creed, religion or ethnicity? I’ve been to Canters and it’s classic traditional Kosher style deli.

[karlwlewis]

@ted

@geographyjones

“All” generalizatios are suspect.

All of them!

All generalizations, including this one, are wrong.

[pshah]

@ajm

Well, look. I stand by what I said,” DeSantis shot back. “I don’t think anyone could reasonably have taken that and acted like I’m somehow advocating anything other than robust political process and robust political accountability.”

The language he used was not the language of political process, but the language of violence and brutality. It was vile and he should apologize at the very least. The only saving grace here is that he’s become a political nonentity. As his poll numbers have fallen, the media has become more aggressive in their reporting of his campaign. That’s not a coincidence.

[leftcoaster]

Adam Klasfeld reports and it seem Jr. just signed anything put before him without knowing what he was signing?

NYAG’s counsel Colleen Faherty continues to systematically confront Don Jr. with his signed certifications to banks and representations on statements of financial condition.

Trump Jr., in turn, continues to emphasize the advice of his lawyers and accountants.

Don Jr. said that he assumed banks would perform their own due diligence.

[taylor]

The only thing surprising about Cannon is not that she’s a cheap party hack (that is also true of most of the Supreme Court), it’s that there is literally nothing that can be done to rein in a rogue justice who decides to make up the law as they go along. There is admittedly some negotiation with the Court of Appeals to find out where their red lines are, but once that is done, you are good to go.

If I was a lawyer, I would quit and take up a more honorable profession. But I’m too old and not good looking enough to be a prostitute, so I guess I would be forced to stay with lawyering.

[nydan516]

Don’t give Trump any ideas for Alex Jones.

[terryelc]

About as much as Jewish Americans. Which means, nothing.

[ted]

I did notice that, but took the cheap shot anyway.

[ralph_vonholst]

@stradivarius50t3

Agreed. The money is somewhere, and somewhere is likely not a collection of wide-mouth Ball jars full of Benjamin Franklin portraits buried in the back yard.

Perhaps his wife has an account with sums of money in it that are not congruent with her earnings from her “convert the gays and the sheepshaggers” website or whatever she took down recently.

[lastroth]

@stradivarius50t3

and somewhere is likely not a collection of wide-mouth Ball jars full of Benjamin Franklin portraits buried in the back yard.

But it would be nice if someone thought of that, and then went and tried to prove, or disprove the hypothesis.

[coimmigrant]

@tao

He’s going to make a vacancy for her???

He (well, the person who wrote the screed) used passive voice, the easy path to plausible deniability.

[cliffdescent]

Tumorville intends to hold out until the orange god-king is re-elected. Then MAGA military leaders will quickly be assigned to take over the military. The slow motion coup proceeds…I hope I’m wrong…

[jnbenson]

@txlawyer

May as well nominate Alex Jones to be Chief Justice.

Alex Jones as Chief Justice?

Two things would have to happen.

1. Trump would have to win the Presidency.
2. The GOP would have to have a super majority in the Senate.

I think if both those things happened Senate Republicans would perform any act of obeisance Trump asked of them. For the most part they aren’t any more independent than the House GOP, so I wouldn’t expect much in the way of spine. But I think the probability of both of those things happening is very small.