These cases are getting scheduled? They don’t have to wait for the SCOTUS immunity decision?
FBI Search and Seizure at Trump's Mar-A-Lago Residence, August 8, 2022, Case Dismissed July 15, 2024
If the J6 trial has already been scheduled, why would they have to move it if Cannon decides to schedule her trial at the same time? What gives Cannon priority? Why doesn’t she have to work around the already-scheduled trials?
Would they have before? Was she a respected judge until this case? My understanding is that she was not.
He already weaponized the DOJ during his last term in office - see the Durham investigation, Barr blocking investigations and indictments, etc etc.
interesting theory from legal tv types, that team trump is less afraid of the florida case, and will use florida and cannon to block dc and ga.
the ga case was looking at august, and dc is waiting on sc decision, hoping for sept.
It is not at all uncommon to encounter district court judges who have held that position for 30 years or more. It is a pretty sweet gig (if it appeals to your personality) with considerable flexibility and control over one’s schedule. It will support a very comfortable lifestyle (in most geographical areas.) And it has pretty great retirement benefits. (Of course, switching to a different job can allow qualifying for multiple pensions.
IME, in federal government one’s career track often maxes out at a certain level. In the legal field, someone who has maxed out will have to decide whether any alternative job offers compensation, benefits, and challenges favorably reflecting that job’s requirements. (I.e. - you might earn more, but you also might have to work a lot more hours.). Loose Cannon experienced the somewhat problematic fortune of being promoted to a relatively high position at a relatively young age. It is one thing to max out in your 50s or so, when you can retire in 15-20 years. But to max out in your 30s or 40s, you have to figure out how long you can stand to be in that same job. Think of poor Queen Elizabeth - 70 years in the same job without a promotion! 
I would be interested in seeing a study of career trends of people appointed to the federal bench. How many simply retire from such positions, as opposed to elevation to a higher court, or retiring and then accepting subsequent employment as faculty, arbitrators, board members, etc. From my position of abject ignorance, I would wager a majority of DCt judges pretty much simply retire, with possibly keeping their toe-in with some part-time “of counsel”, academic, or arbitration/mediation sort of work.
RE: mediators and arbitrators. IMO, those positions are quite well compensated for the effort required. And entry to that field seems quite skewed to ex-judges. But few of those are full-time positions.
I wasn’t very clear. It involves several moving parts and it’s more something I just feel. It’s important to note these trials will last months. But I’ll try again:
Cannon is going to schedule her trial right now. Let’s say she schedules mid-August.
J6 is not currently scheduled and can’t be for some time due to the stay. They will schedule that trial date after the case comes back from the Supreme Court. The SC should rule around June’ish and J6 can schedule a trial date after that. If Trump’s schedule was clear (no docs trial), J6 would schedule a mid-August/Sept/something around here trial date - about 90 days out from when the Supreme Court has ruled/returned it to trial court. But J6 Judge won’t be able to do that because there will already be another Trump trial scheduled in the docs case, and that trial will last a couple months.
J6 won’t schedule two trials to overlap. So J6 will have to schedule something in late 2024, or 2025. So now you have the docs trial in August 2024, and the J6 trial in 2025.
Then you’re just hoping Cannon/schedule stays on track. It’s the only one that could possibly occur before the election. That’s highly unlikely I’d guess.
I’d just add this is very speculative which I don’t usually do, but what the hell. It hinges on when Cannon moves (again) the trial date she is about to set. So, Cannon will set a trial for mid-August now, J6 later sets a 2025 date, and then Cannon will later move the August date (or force Jack to appeal something just prior to trial which will move it automatically). It really feels like this will happen.
florida hearing adjourns with out a trial date. le sigh.
One of the most appalling things about this ‘Trump skates again’ scenario (which I agree is likely) is how it feeds his fans’ view of him as Chosen of the Lord. The evil ones harassing Him are always thwarted, etc. etc.
Trump won’t face any consequences in the criminal courts for his actions . At all. Ever.
The civil penalties he’s incurred and may yet incur are really all that might inconvenience him. And if his ‘he’s the Messiah’ fans succeed in getting him elected, by fair means or foul, even those inconveniences may go away by one means or another. (If assassination is okayed by SCOTUS as a legitimate tool of a President, it will become possible to halt all efforts to collect monies from him.)
Jack Smith makes a filing in the documents case, smacking down on Trump’s claims and comparing Trump’s actions to other high-ranking investigations:
(Above contains link to filing.)
Article here:
Thanks for posting. To be clear (and mentioned in the article), Smith made 7 separate filings in response to all the various Motions to Dismiss made by Trump and other Defendants. That’s a lot of smack down.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban is visiting the United States. Not Washington DC, ha ha. Just Mar a Largo and an orange security threat. Man, it’s a good thing there isn’t a stageful of classified American intel there anymore!
Whew! That was close!
But go ahead, Republican shitwads, make this asshole your president.
In the “no shit Sherlock” department, we have this obvious statement from Smith in the filing:
Smith also swatted down Trump’s effort to claim he was “immune” from the charges because of his role as president, a contention the special counsel called “so wholly without merit that it is difficult to understand it except as part of a strategic effort for delay.”
I’d just like to repeat that last bit about Trump’s “immunity” for emphasis:
“so wholly without merit that it is difficult to understand it except as part of a strategic effort for delay.”
If Trump is elected, they might as well just send the daily National Security briefing directly to Putin. Avoid the middle-man.
I was sure there was some law out there about private individuals engaging in this kind of pseudo diplomacy.
Just read the Response to the Presidential Records Act argument. It did not go how I thought. I posted above a week or so ago that I did not think these were Presidential records at all, much less personal. However, Smith mostly argues that they are not personal records, and they are likely Presidential records. So I’m confused.
Once this gets into the PRA presidential or personal, then it takes Smith using an executive order and other such stuff to say Trump wasn’t “authorized” to possess them. I don’t like this authority hanging on an EO. The problem is, once your in PRA land, the President has great leeway to determine what is personal and what is not.
To be clear, Smith doesn’t concede they are presidential records. Also, this is just a hot take and I’ll read again with my daughter not bothering me, and more importantly, see what the smart people say in a few days.
Go with what Smith says. If the game ain’t rigged, you’ll be alright.
My impression has always been that any records in the White House are either Presidential records or personal records, one or the other. If a document is not a personal record, then it’s Presidential and belongs to the National Archives. I haven’t yet read the filing, but it seems you’re saying that some documents could be in some third category.
Third, Fourth, and Fifth categories…meaning, DOD, CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. Gov Documents not created by or to the President.
I don’t think that’s wrong, but happy to be corrected. Or more likely, we are talking past each other in some way.
Here, I didn’t put enough weight on the “to the President” part of a Presidential record - I thought more letters, etc. Jack seems to hint/not deny that the Presidents Daily Briefing would be a Presidential record because it’s directed to the President. I didn’t think that. Not until today.