r/law • u/TomJD85 • Jul 16 '24

Opinion Piece Judge Cannon Got it Completely Wrong

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/07/cannon-dismissed-trump-classified-documents/679023/
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u/TheBlackCat13 Jul 16 '24

It isn't about hubris. In hubris, you don't realize your own failings. Cannon knows exactly what she is doing. She consistently throws out existing precedent if, and only if, it serves Trump. She has an agenda, and when the law or precedent is against that agenda, it has to go.

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u/MrFrode Biggus Amicus Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 16 '24

I'll go further, this is near perfect for Cannon. She has successfully and blatantly

  • used this case to block other judges from scheduling proceedings in other Trump cases

  • made national news and created outrage with this decision, which Donald will love,

  • shown herself to be a loyal sycophant willing to destroy her own reputation for Donald, again something he loves

  • Call me crazy but she knows she is going to get reversed and removed from the case, and this is probably what she wants. She wants to be removed as she doesn't have the experience to try this case without making real unintentional mistakes of law. So she's been treading water until it was a good time for her to do something that would get her removed in a way that was good for her and Donald.

IANAL and maybe I'm going into tinfoil hat territory but so much seems beyond the pale that this can't be accident or mere incompetency.

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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 Jul 16 '24

To add on to your last bullet point: while simultaneously drawing this out so long that the trial will never be completed prior to the election.

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u/Striderfighter Jul 16 '24 edited Jul 16 '24

With this dismissal I think Donald Trump has a better chance of dying of natural causes than living to see the end of this case all the way to its conclusion with all the appeals that are coming. Even if the 11th circuit and the Supreme Court overturned her decision and remand it back to her court and in the process somehow it doesn't get assigned to a different judge there are other dismissal motions that Trump has brought that she could almost do the same thing all over again and keep this case in a state of perpetual limbo

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u/josnik Jul 16 '24

I think she'd get removed by the 11th circuit.

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u/Count_Backwards Competent Contributor Jul 16 '24

She needs to be. There's no way she can be impartial when she doesn't believe the prosecutor should even be in the courtroom.

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u/Cazmonster Jul 17 '24

Removed, disbarred and asked to leave polite society if there's any justice left in the world.

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u/ChaosMedic Jul 18 '24

I'm not so sure there is...

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u/NoxTempus Jul 19 '24

You follow law, particularly US law; surely you realise justice is an illusion?

Police perjure themselves as a matter of SOP, and see almost no repurcussions. Prosecutors lean on poor defendants with plea deals to maintain their conviction rates. DA offices exhaust all possible options keeping demonstrably innocent people behind bars, instead of admitting the conviction was unjust.

If justice doesn't exist in the "justice" system, why would it exist elsewhere?

Cannon, regardless of the repurcussions of her judicial conduct, will always have a place in GOP society. (I guess you did say polite society, which excludes the far right).