# FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024

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**Created:** [August 8, 2022, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329 "2022-08-08T23:18:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fbi-search-and-seizure-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-residence-august-8-2022-case-dismissed-july-15-2024/969329/8503 "2024-09-04T20:36:44Z")

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Any chance this could work?

> **[Legal experts want Judge Cannon removed from Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents case](https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100673/judge-cannon-removal-trump-mar-a-lago-documents-case)**
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> Former federal judge Nancy Gertner and two legal scholars say rulings by Judge Aileen Cannon have raised “well-founded concerns that she may be biased against the Government’s case.”

> MIAMI — A retired federal judge is among those [asking an appeals court](https://apps.npr.org/documents/document.html?id=25091477-cannon-reassmt-brf-as-) to reassign former President Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified documents case to a new judge.
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> In documents filed with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, two groups of legal experts and former government officials say U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon should be removed from the case.
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> Gertner and the legal scholars were joined in the motion by the government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW). They say if the appeals court overturns Cannon’s ruling, it would be the third time it’s reversed her in “a seemingly straightforward case about a former president’s unauthorized possession of government documents.”
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> They say Judge Cannon’s ruling ignored the “plain text” of the Appointments Clause of the Constitution which allows the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor. Her dismissal of the charges they say are “in clear defiance of binding Supreme Court precedent and the plain text of Congress’ statutes.” They’re asking the Appeals Court to reverse Judge Cannon’s ruling and to remove her from the case.

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