Below is my column in the New York Post on the opinion of Judge Aileen Cannon. Once again, Democracy is “under attack” because a judge ruled against the prosecution in a Trump case. Indeed, law professors and legal experts are demanding the removal of Cannon for having the temerity to adopt an opposing view of the underlying constitutional claim.
Here is the column:
“This is how republics collapse.” Those ominous words captured the hand-wringing, hair-pulling reaction to the dismissal of the Florida case against Donald Trump by Judge Aileen Cannon.
It was not just that she reached a conclusion long supported by some conservative lawyers and a Supreme Court justice.
To rule in favor of Trump in such a dismissal is, once again, the end of Democracy as we know it.
The 93-page order methodically goes through the governing cases and statutes for the appointment of prosecutors. There has long been a debate over how an attorney general like Merrick Garland can circumvent the constitutional process for the appointment of a U.S. Attorney and unilaterally elevate a citizen to wield even greater power.
With the expiration of the Independent Counsel Act in 1999, attorneys general have long relied upon their inherent authority to appoint “inferior officers” to special counsel investigations. The issue has never been conclusively ruled upon by the Supreme Court, even though lower courts have rejected this challenge.
The Trump ruling is certainly an outlier and the odds favor prosecutor Jack Smith on appeal. Many point to a challenge in 2019 in the D.C. Circuit to the appointment of Robert Mueller. The court found that “binding precedent establishes that Congress has ‘by law’ vested authority in the Attorney General to appoint the Special Counsel as an inferior officer.”
That is the view of many lawyers and judges. However, Judge Cannon disagreed and found a lack of clear authority for both the appointment and the appropriations used for Smith.
Nevertheless, legal experts were incredulous and irate. Jed Shugerman, a Boston University Law professor, is quoted as expressing shock that Judge Cannon is essentially saying, “I’m not bound by the DC Circuit, and I think they misinterpret this.”
He added that it showed an “astonishing level of dismissiveness.”
However, in point of fact, Judge Cannon is not bound by the D.C. Circuit. As a federal judge in Florida, she is bound by the 11th Circuit and, of course, the Supreme Court. She is allowed to reach a different conclusion on a matter of law.
Laurence Tribe, a law professor at Harvard University, declared that “Judge Cannon just did the unthinkable,” He added, “This finally gives Jack Smith an opportunity to seek her removal from the case. I think the case for doing so is very strong.” (Tribe previously declared that he was certain “without any doubt, beyond a reasonable doubt, beyond any doubt” that Trump could be charged with the attempted murder of former Vice President Michael Pence).
It does not matter to these critics that other lawyers and judges agree with Judge Cannon.
Justice Clarence Thomas recently expressed the same view in the Trump immunity decision in his concurrence. He did not view this as a settled question and wrote “if this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people. The lower courts should thus answer these essential questions concerning the special counsel’s appointment before proceeding.”
Yet these experts believe that a judge without a direct controlling case on the question should be removed for reaching the same conclusion as a member of the Supreme Court and at least two former U.S. Attorneys General.
Of course, these experts would be aghast at any suggestion that D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan should be removed after being reversed by the Supreme Court in the recent immunity opinion.
Such experts are not raising questions of bias over Chutkin’s rulings in favor of Smith or the similar pattern of Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan.
Yet Cannon is viewed as not simply wrong, but partisan in ruling for Trump.
How do republics collapse?
When judges are pressured or removed for ruling against favored parties.
When the system is undermined by leading political leaders who go to the steps of the Supreme Court to threaten justices that they “will pay the price” for ruling against one side.
When law professors call the courts the “enemy” and push to cut off air conditioning to coerce them to resign.
Alexander Hamilton once said that the Republic is preserved “through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
That does not mean that the trial courts are always right. That is why we have appellate courts. However, conflicting decisions are the norm in cases that make it to the Supreme Court. Indeed, the justices often wait for such divisions to occur before they finally resolve long-standing questions.
These demands for the removal of Judge Cannon are simply extensions of the same group think culture of the “defenders of Democracy.”This Republic will not “collapse” if Judge Cannon is right or if she is wrong. It is safe as long as judges are able to rule according to their understanding of the law, regardless of the demands of the perpetually and emphatically enraged.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster).
We should all remember that the Democrat Party is the party of Marxist parasites who will do or say anything that will allow them to keep feeding off the productive taxpayer. From time to time we have to rid ourselves of parasites in order to stay healthy. This is most readily done by forcing them to convert to productive citizens or be left to starve. It’s time for a delousing!
Who is J.Turley is gaslighting? If I lie about him and is killed; is that free speech. Now days , Washington speech, Political speech, etc.; are considered exceptions to the rule. With some of the grownup speakers at the RMC convention pervading misinformation does not set a good example to young people and how they would be transparent and honest with the American people. Once a “GOD DAMN LIER, always a GOD DAMN LIER”!!
What is the “RMC convention”, and what “misinformation” pervading?
For years Roe v. Wade was viewed as a poorly reasoned legal decision by a liberal court. The Democrats loved it so much that they decided not to legally enshrine it in the laws of the United States when they held the Office of President, a majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Then a conservative court does the unthinkable (at least to Democrats), they throw the power to decide, back to the states. We are a nation of laws that needs to be applied equally to all. Unfortunately Democratic dogma does not allow a reasoned debates on facts and the law. They don’t realize that if they allow power to go unchecked, it will eventually be used against them.
The Supreme Court threw nothing to any entity.
It logically, rationally, appropriately, and impartially applied existing statutory and fundamental law.
I am concerned that so many of these lawyers and commentators are not even aware of what laws apply in this case. I am seeing and hearing too many of these people assume the law is what they say it is, and not the plain language that it is written in.
The Constitution sets out how officers are appointed into their positions. It says that these officers/officials have to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Jack Smith was neither; therefore, it is only logical that his appointment is inconsistent with the law, and thus, illegal.
“This Is How Republics Collapse.”
– Professor Turley
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The American republic collapsed in 1860, when the Supreme Court must have struck down Lincoln’s utterly unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession.
The Supreme Court failed, killing the Constitution, half the nation, and nearly one million Americans.
The Southern States must have seceded of their own volition, failed, and ultimately reunited out of necessity.
Reprehensible slavery was “withering on the vine” in disfavor and on track for extinction in the Western world.
Long-suffering African abductees must have been safely and compassionately repatriated for their own benefit, per contemporary immigration law.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what they forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Constitutional Confederate Kluxxer George once again makes his pitch to deport all black Americans- to countries that they had never set foot in:
The American republic collapsed in 1860, when the Supreme Court must have struck down Lincoln’s utterly unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession… Long-suffering African abductees must have been safely and compassionately repatriated for their own benefit, per contemporary immigration law.
Second and third generation slaves born in America magically become “African abductees” – reminds me of how his fellow Democrats made Illegal Aliens into “undocumented migrants”.
George is outraged that SCOTUS didn’t give him the Kluxxer utopia he wants with none of those icky black colored people.
George is one sick kitty.
How about just tourists… undocumented tourists. Why not.
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With the appellate system in play, judges serve as checks and balances among themselves. The Republic is not threatened in the slightest from the rulings of single judges sitting in separate venues. The leftist illiberal group thinkers need to repress their penchant for hyperbole and cure their angst.
For a lawyer’s response?
If Smith was an improper SC is he still covered under law with sovereign immunity as a prosecutor, is he or DOJ resigning for the millions they have ccst Trump as well as wasted? If not so, why not?!
Responsible
This is what judge Cannon chose to ignore,
“ 28 U.S.C. §§ 509, 510, 515, 533. Acting pursuant to those statutes, the Attorney General has delegated the authority to represent the United States in these particular matters to a Special Prosecutor with unique authority and tenure.” —U.S. vs. Nixon 1974
Cannon simply declared that she was NOT bound by a different circuit court’s decision or that of the Supreme Court. Clearly she is wrong.
Clearly you are smarter than her.
Even though you’ve been wrong 100 times on this blog
He gets confused with all of the hats he wears: nurse practitioner, lawyer, quoting the Book of Revelations in Latin by memory, then Beowolf in Old English, and Lawd knows being CEO of the Sock Puppets Watch of California must be taxing on xis/xer/they brain.
This site is the only jurisdiction where George can practice law.
her is smart?
Clearly you are dumb. Listing statutes doesn’t show intelligence, rather demonstrates you don’t know how the statutes relate to the law. What Cannon did was not so uncommon and her type of action has had support from Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats thought politically, not legally so what Cannon did was a good thing for our democracy. Now the Democrats can use the usual non-political method of starting over using the Florida AG, try bringing this to a higher court, or try to appoint a new SC that better conforms to the rules (if even that is proper).
You learned how to bullsh1t at an early age which prevented you from developing your mind and left you intellectually impaired.
She explained in her opinion why US v Nixon was not binding on this question and why the D.C. Circuit opinions were not persuasive. Her opinion is well reasoned and very thorough.
Roe v. Wade was also a “binding court decision as precedent” until someone discovered actual law, right?
Of course, Roe v. Wade was utter juridical and legal corruption.
Try to imagine that abject corruption as “binding precedent” persisted for 50 years.
Courts have no power to legislate, modify legislation, or amend the Constitution.
Cannon did not and could not contradict a holding in US v Nixon, so this is nothing like Dobbs/Roe. What Cannon said was that Nixon did not resolve this question, because it was not raised, briefed or analysed. The parties and the court simply assumed that the statutes in question were sufficient to authorise the appointment. A question that is not raised cannot be said to have been resolved.
It wasn’t renewed in 1999. It all goes way back to Taft and Janet Reno and Morrison v. Olson and it’s big. Perhaps Muller and Hur are members of the DOJ even after having left?
Most likely she’s correct. It would be an interesting 93 pages and if a president can’t dismiss appointees after confirmation that also weakens his power? I’m not qualified but it’s interesting especially since we’ve been witnesses to the unending prosecution by the DOJ of political opponents.
George the constitutional Confederate Kluxxer tried this Confederate gambit:
This is what judge Cannon chose to ignore,
This is what Kluxxer George chose to ignore that was held in a Washington DC court regarding presidents retaining ANY records:
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Nat’l Archives & Records Admin., 845 F. Supp. 2d 288 (D.D.C. 2012)
The gravamen of the complaint, then, is that the tapes should have been included among the Presidential records transferred to the Archivist of the United States at the end of the Clinton presidency, but President Clinton retained them in his personal possession when he left office…
The Court notes at the outset that there is broad language in Armstrong I stating that the PRA accords the President “virtually complete control” over his records during his time in office. 924 F.2d at 290. In particular, the court stated that the President enjoys unconstrained authority to make decisions regarding the disposal of documents: “[a]lthough the President must notify the Archivist before disposing of records … neither the Archivist nor Congress has the authority to veto the President’s disposal decision.” Id., citing H.R. Rep. No. 95–1487, at 13 (1978), reprinted in 1978 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 5744.
Since the President is completely entrusted with the management and even the disposal of Presidential records during his time in office, it would be difficult for this Court to conclude that Congress intended that he would have less authority to do what he pleases with what he considers to be his personal records. ”
The PRA contains no provision obligating or even permitting the Archivist to assume control over records that the President “categorized” and “filed separately” as personal records. At the conclusion of the President’s term, the Archivist only “assume[s] responsibility for … the Presidential records.” Id. § 2203(f)(1).
The President alone wields the executive branch power of classification, declassification, disposition, and archiving of materials.
The legislative branch has no legal basis to usurp any aspect, facet or degree of the power of the executive branch.
No legislation usurping the power of the executive branch is constitutional.
No legislation usurping the power of the executive branch to classify, declassify, dispose of, and archive material is constitutional.
The PRA is unconstitutional.
Read the opinion before spouting nonsense. That issue is throughly addressed and resonated in the opinion. It was not a justiciable issue before the Supreme Court.
Jonathan: Ohio’s jr. Sen. JD Vance is DJT’s pic for the GOP VP nomination. Not entirely unexpected. Vance heavily auditioned for the job. And what are Vance’s credentials?
Vance once called DJT “America’s Hitler”, a “cynical a***ole”, and “moral disaster”–just a few of the unkind words Vance used about his running mate. That was then and now is now–and Vance has done a 180 and now endorses the DJT agenda. He stands for the following:
—Vance supports a nationwide ban on abortion without any exceptions for rape or incest and opposes gay marriage;
—He is a proponent of the white supremacist “Great Replacement” theory;
—Vance says he would have helped DJT overturn the 2020 election and refuses to commit to accepting the results of the 2024 if DJT loses;
—He is a big supporter of Putin in the war in Ukraine.
There is more but you get the idea. Vance is firmly in the MAGA cult and that is why DJT chose him. He is also a White male. Can’t think of a more qualified person to run with DJT. But for women, Black folk, the LGBTQ+ community and voters who love Democracy, Vance may present a big problem in November. He now doesn’t see any problem with DJT being “America’s Hitler”!
Define “democracy” for us, Dennis.
Kamala’s total incompetence worked well for Biden. She’s been his “insurance policy.”
How did Biden’s DEI selection for his VP work out for the Democrat party? Total fail.
Trump and Vance will be at a rally THIS Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Trump was shot 3 days ago.
He’s never stopped working to EARN our votes.
What’s Joe Biden up to? Besides his usual hate speech?
Well, Dennis, here’s the thing you will never understand: America likes leaders. Americans likes courageous leaders who love this country and who are willing to die for it. America doesn’t like Traitors who sell their office to our enemies around the world in order to enrich their own sleezy family members. Americans don’t like cackling fools who got their start in politics by sucking the d*ck of a powerful Democrat mayor and then got the job one heartbeat away from being the Leader of the Free World because she is a diversity hire. She’s not even African American. She’s Jamaican and East Indian. That’s why blacks also reject her. She’s a total fraud. Total fail.
Americans like leaders.
Americans do not like frauds and traitors.
And Dennis, if you considered responding by saying Trump is a fraud: don’t.
Trump is a proven, battle-tested, courageous LEADER who LOVES this country and is willing to die for it.
That is the man the world sees. Nothing you Democrat losers and lunatics say at this point will change the truth.
This is Lighteredknot: Yes, spot on Anon
“If you want your kid to go fight in some stupid globalist war, vote for Joe Biden.”
~JD Vance
Dennis ‘Baghdad Bob’ McIntyre in a moment of lacking self-awareness, screamed his dismay that Trump picked JD Vance to be the next Vice President, replacing Kamala Harris:
Vance once called DJT “America’s Hitler”, a “cynical a***ole”, and “moral disaster”–just a few of the unkind words Vance used about his running mate.
Earth to Dennis. When she was Senator Kamala Harris, she said on numerous occasions that President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers was a RAPIST.
She also said on numerous occasions that she believed The Big Guy to be a RACIST. One who tried to keep little girl Kamala Harris of school buses because he didn’t want his children going to jungle bunny schools.
Dennis… Trump is not your pick for president, Bribery Biden is. You don’t have a problem FOUR YEARS AGO with one of those “Black folk” you just mentioned telling you that Biden was both a RACIST AND A RACIST?
Baghdad Bob McIntyre regurgitated Bribery Biden’s lies about JD Vance – while ignoring VP Harris telling McIntyre and America Biden is both a RACIST and a RAPIST:
—Vance supports a nationwide ban on abortion without any exceptions for rape or incest and opposes gay marriage;
That’s a Bribery Biden/Baghdad Bob McIntyre lie. Let’s hear from Vance himself:
During his Senate campaign in October 2022, Vance said he was “totally fine” with “some minimum national standard” on abortion restrictions in the immediate aftermath of the overturning of Roe. “Ohio’s going to want to have different abortion laws than California, than Texas”
—He is a proponent of the white supremacist “Great Replacement” theory
JD Vance calls out racist Democrats hoping to use illegal aliens to gain power. Democrats have been writing and speaking regularly that their survival and hope for a federal government hegemony is demographics replacement theory. The Soviet Democrats have been saying it, writing books about it, and planning for it for over 20 years now – but suddenly their hopes for survival and power are not Soviet Democrat racism, but white supremacist!
From Dennis McIntyre’s fellow Soviet Democrats at Politico:
For years, the Democratic Party has operated under one immutable assumption: Long-term demographic trends would give the party something like a permanent majority as the country as a whole grows less white and more urban.
In their influential 2002 book, “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” Democratic Party strategists John Judis and Ruy Teixeira made the case that Democrats were poised to dominate US politics for years to come because of immigration-fueled demographic change. “Hispanic support is a crucial part of a new Democratic majority,” they wrote, and “Hispanics are the minority group that is growing the most.” San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro forecasted a coming era of Democratic dominance in Texas, powered in part by rising numbers of Hispanic voters. “It’s changing,” Castro exulted. “It’s going to become a purple state and then a blue state because of the demographics, because of the population growth of Hispanics from outside of Texas.” This has long been conventional wisdom.
—He is a big supporter of Putin in the war in Ukraine.
Baghdad Bob McIntyre lies every time his fingers are on his keyboard. Vance opposes unrestricted amounts of aid going to Ukraine without any oversight. Vance remembers there’s corrupt politicians like Bribery Biden and The Crackhead Kid in Ukraine corruptly funneling money into their personal pockets.
Let’s read what Vance says about Ukraine as opposed to what Dennis McIntyre lies that he says:
Vance said at the Munich Security Conference in February that the United States’ ability to support Ukraine’s ongoing battle to fend off Russia’s invasion is “limited” due to America’s weapons manufacturing capacity. He said it wouldn’t be realistic for the U.S. to continue providing the same level of assistance to Ukraine moving forward.
“Given the realities that we face, the very real constraints in munitions and manpower, what is reasonable to accomplish and when do we actually think we’re going to accomplish it? And my argument is, look, I think what’s reasonable to accomplish is some negotiated peace,” Vance said. “This will end in a negotiated peace. The question is when it ends in a negotiated peace and what that looks like.”
The entire time President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Sex Showers has been president, his Vice President’s claims that she believes him to be a RAPIST AND A RACIST have hung over the head of Dennis McIntyre’s boss, Pedo Joe Biden. Dennis McIntyre has responded to those charges by giving Pedo Joe Biden his unquestioning loyalty. Meanwhile, he tells us we should be worried about Vance.
Dennis, you are making BS straw-man arguments. For example, you claimed Vance “ is a big supporter of Putin in the war in Ukraine.” Actually, you did worse than make a straw-man argument, you LIED. Vance didn’t said he supports Putin, he said 1 – the numbers do not add up to a Ukrainian victory (which is objectively true, even Mark Milly softly said that when he was the CJCS) and 2 – he doesn’t care about Ukraine.
You have zero credibility.
I’m really growing weary of the Mainstream Media never fact checking Joe Biden. He has continually said that inflation was at nine percent when he took office. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the inflation rate in the United States for the 12 months ending in January 2020 was 2.5%. This was the largest increase since October 2018. The monthly inflation rate for January 2020 was 0.4%. He also said in the debate that the Border Patrol had endorsed him. To put icing on the cake he said that it was Trump who wanted to get rid of the police when we know that the defund the police movement was pushed in Blue cities. It could be that he is not maliciously lying and that he is just an old man with a loss of memory. I’m going with both.
“It could be that he is not maliciously lying and that he is just an old man with a loss of memory. I’m going with both.”
No, the man is malicious. Go with that alone, no benefit of any doubt, he doesn’t deserve it. We have 51 years of evidence in the public sphere to know without a doubt that Biden is a malicious, pathological, serial liar — to the point of it actually being a mental illness. The man even plagiarized someone else’s life story as part of his first failed presidential race! Who does that? A mentally ill and unstable person. That is the true character of this evil man.
And yes, he is evil. Who lets his dogs continue to bite and attack his secret service detail DOZENS of times before doing something about it? An evil man.
Who ignores a child fathered by his own son and treats that child as persona non grata when the child is his flesh and blood and wants to know her grandparents? An evil man and his evil wife who hung stocking for even the dogs that attacked their SS detail, but not their own son’s child he is responsible for?
Who uses a primetime TV address to specifically attack “conservative’ Supreme Court justices and put targets on their backs just as he puts targets on Trump and MAGA supporters calling us “domestic terrorists”? An evil man.
Who abuses his power to destroy his political opponent with political lawfare, trying to bankrupt him, jail his advisors, jail his supporters, abuse the justice system, lie about all of it, and now, with a clearly botched assassination attempt that left one innocent man dead, refuses to even FIRE the SS Director? A truly unhinged, evil man.
There is not enough space here to keep listing the truly evil things this man has said and DONE as he abuses his power and attacks VOTERS because they support MAGA policies and question HIM! Joe Biden acts like an evil dictator because he is an evil demented dictator. May God protect this country from this evil administration. The October Surprise is going to be a doozy this country may not be ready for.
Why is Merrick Garland not in prison for defying a Congressional subpoena?
When is Jack Smith going to prison?
How soon before Judge Cannon becomes Justice Cannon?
The standard is: if you’ve said it you’ve done it. That’s on excellent authority btw. Trump and the outburst- he should be hanged may be an angry statement and to be taken literally but it is also not a civil statement. Pence did not press charges is noted.
As to judge Cannon’s opinion? I’m not qualified to have an opinion nor have I attempted to read the 93 page opinion. It was my understanding the independent counselor must not be a part of the government. Jack Smith is. It’s impossible to investigate oneself without bias I suppose.
The hearings before committees in congress have a repetitive thank you senator for the question or I’m glad you asked that rhetoric . They are empty words as the witness proceeds to evade the question and filibuster causing the often heated declaration of reclaiming my time.
It leads one to believe it’s simply evading truth or philosophically known as bs. One congressman often declares “it’s made of whole cloth”. The reference goes back 100s of years meaning a complete fabrication having no truth at all. It simply means as it is known today as a lie. BS is far worse.
Cannon implemented the law.
How refreshing. How novel.
Perhaps now, courts might begin to implement the truth of Article 1, Section 8, and the right to private property in the 5th Amendment – oops, there goes the American welfare state.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court must have started with Lincoln and his wholly illicit and unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession; the beginning of the end for the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Confederate constitutional Kluxxer George:
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court must have started with Lincoln and his wholly illicit and unconstitutional denial of not-prohibited and fully constitutional secession
George wants us to believe that SCOTUS was only right when they were handing down the Dred Scott decision, holding that black Americans were not humans, merely private property owned by Soviet Democrats. George sure loves him some of that racist Confederate Justice Tanny
George will never forgive Lincoln for crushing his fellow Confederates. The worst day in history for George is when Lincoln freed the Confederacy’s black slaves.
Dear Mr. Turley, The Democrats thought they had Mr. Trump in the bag. With 4 different court cases, they thought for sure he would be seeing the inside of a prison cell somewhere. It’s too bad; they placed all of their eggs into one basket. All of the cases were shallow, and I hope the one in New York will be turned over on appeal. So, now he will be the nominee for the Republican Party. It is strange sometimes just how things work out. Folks can’t get away with lies all of the time. Eventually the truth will come out. The Scripture promises this: “anything thing done in secret will be shouted from the housetops”
A unanimous Supreme Court declared, “Congress has also vested in [the attorney general] the power to appoint subordinate officers to assist him in the discharge of his duties.” The court explicitly held that the attorney general could appoint a special prosecutor to investigate offenses arising out of the 1972 presidential election and allegations involving President Nixon.
Cannon said that this was just “dicta” from the Supreme Court, language unnecessary to its holding, and that she was not bound by it.
She certainly bound by it. She is choosing to ignore Supreme Court precedent by brushing off the Nixon ruling as mere rhetoric. She’s already been admonished by the 11th circuit due to her sloppy judgment of the law. Turley even expects Smith to succeed. He just won’t say it assertively enough so that he does not look like he’s saying judge Cannon is wrong. He knows she’s wrong, he does not want to project that onto his readers because he will be seen as being favorable to Smith. Turley wants to avoid that.
Now tell us Gigi, since you’re a Nurse Practitioner, in addition to be an “attorney”, and a prolific troll shlt poster fond of the “Book of Revelations” in Latin, and “Beowulf” in Old English, the treatment guidelines for Joseph Biden’s Early Parkinson’s disease. We will wait.
That question was never raised, briefed or considered in US v Nixon. The court simply assumed it. That is why Cannon viewed it as non-binding dicta. She reviewed all the relevant filings in that case before coming to her conclusion.
So why has every special counsel been approved by the Senate except Smith? Why wasn’t Biden prosecuted for the crimes committed and investigated by Hur? We really want to know!
Why dont you just stfu and see what happens? Why do you feel the need to predict.
Where did you take your legal training?
I love watching s@@tlibs literally burst a blood vessel while having a meltdown.
Imagine walking through the farmers market in a very blue area wearing a PR World Baseball Classic hat and Latinos for Trump shirt.
When I do this S@@tlibs aren’t sure if they are supposed to suck up or hate me. They really believe their own BS.
If I were a leftist, open borders Hispanic, they’d be k@@ing my a@@ hoping I will like them.
I rarely have other Hispanics become upset with this, it is almost always white, anglo s@@tlibs.
S@@tlibs, help me with this, why do you guys get a white savior complex?
antonio