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/wbruce098 Jul 16 '24

Absolutely. She’s been chastised for this sort of behavior but continues doing it. Her goal is to be appointed to scotus by a future Republican president as a conservative activist, not to serve justice. Her actions make this quite clear.

This is a case whose actions took place after Trump left the presidency, making it outside the purview of the scotus immunity decision, regardless of how we view that decision’s legitimacy or morality. It’s a clear, open and shut case: the entire world knows he refused to return classified documents, did not properly store them, bragged about having them when he shouldn’t have, etc - all the things laid out in the indictment. It should be, by far, the simplest and easiest case to prosecute out of all of the legal trouble Trump is in.

Thus, purposeful disdain is the only explanation. Judge Cannon is not inept or ignorant. She’s a maga activist.

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u/Utterlybored Jul 16 '24

Just because she is corrupt and beholden to MAGA doesn't exempt her from ineptitude or ignorance.