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https://slaynews.com/news/judge-jack-smith-removes-trump-classified-documents-case-calendar/

The Democrats’ hopes have just been shattered after the judge in President Donald Trump’s classified documents case officially removed the trial from the calendar.

The move shuts down Special Counsel Jack Smith’s anti-Trump case, ensuring that it will never go to trial before the 2024 election, as the Democrats had hoped.

As Slay News recently reported, Judge Aileen Cannon indefinitely postponed the trial after it had emerged that the prosecution had been tampering with evidence.

The trial was scheduled for May 20, and while Democrats may have been hoping the case could get back on track before November, those hopes have now been crushed after it has officially been removed from the calendar.

https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/here-it-comes

Today, Judge Aileen Cannon will ask Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawyers to do some ‘splainin’ about how come he got to be Special Counsel without being nominated by a president or confirmed by the Senate, which is the lawful procedure. It’s therefore possible that Judge Cannon can determine that Mr. Smith is not operating lawfully. That’s not the only thing that can deflate the so-called Mar-a-Lago Documents case, but it could lead to a determination that this was a malicious political prosecution, with consequences for AG Merrick Garland.

By the way, you know what this case is really about, don’t you? I’ll tell you: the FBI went into Mar-a-Lago looking for Mr. Trump’s binder containing evidence of FBI and DOJ misconduct in the RussiaGate caper. Whether they found it or not, we don’t know, nor do we know if there are other copies of the materials. But you might surmise that a lot of officials in those agencies are a little nervous about their criminal liability, especially with the presidential election poll numbers looking how they do. In other words, the Mar-a-Lago raid was a cover-up operation.

Fair enough. Trump is right, it was clearly political persecution.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/hes-baaack-tuesday-august-13-2024

Finally, yesterday produced a breaking legal story that was so exciting and so encouraging that I’ll screenshot the headline for you, so you can enjoy seeing it as much as I did. Forbes:

Trump Intends To Sue DOJ
Over Mar-A-Lago Search

Boom. Yes! Yesterday, President Trump served the DOJ with a notice of claim —a required pre-suit procedure— saying he intends to sue the Department of Justice for $115 million dollars. Trump’s claims include malicious political prosecution and abuse of process.




Forbes’ article dripped with skepticism, pointing out that, since the DOJ gets 180 days to respond, Trump won’t likely file a suit until after the election. And, if Trump wins, Forbes groused, he might be unlikely to sue an agency he controls.

But to me, on the other hand, an agency Trump controls might also quickly settle with him, or it might not put up much of a defense. Either way, I thought it was telling that Forbes imagined Trump’s successful election. In its own article, NBC’s sub-headline was similarly suggestive:

The former president is seeking monetary damages from the government, which he may soon be
heading, over what his legal filing called a "malicious political prosecution."

Not only that, but Trump’s case has been buoyed by Judge Cannon’s recent decision to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago raid suit, a magnificent setback for the DOJ, which has appealed the decision. Forbes is hoping against hope. It reported that “other courts” rejected the legal grounds on which Judge Cannon relied, but Forbes ignored Supreme Court Justice Thomas’ lengthy concurrence making those exact same legal arguments.

Trump is an expert at making news despite corporate media’s best efforts to ignore him. Trump’s notice of claim joined the other recent signals that, after three difficult weeks of being the media’s human punching bag, Team Trump has quit playing defense. Now, it’s starting its offense.

Onward and upward!

Patrick says

Today, Judge Aileen Cannon will ask Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawyers to do some ‘splainin’ about how come he got to be Special Counsel without being nominated by a president or confirmed by the Senate, which is the lawful procedure. It’s therefore possible that Judge Cannon can determine that Mr. Smith is not operating lawfully.

Jurisdiction and legitimacy of principles are always litigated extensively before any real lawsuit to establish the genuine identities of all parties, provenances and legal status in the lawsuit. This is usually 'expensive' before trial procedures or discovery even start. It's pretty clear that there are divisions of fake Federal process that are reserved for show trials and selective prosecutions. I guess you could call them Intel Agency Potemkin courts that exist only for appearance of process and optics, with all the judges, prosecutors (or even defense lawyers) pre fabbed for the fakes (Jizzlaine, Sam of FTX etc.)