On Monday afternoon, Judge Aileen Cannon single-handedly hit the brakes on the most politically sensitive and consequential FBI investigation ever undertaken.
On Monday afternoon, Cannon single-handedly hit the brakes onever undertaken. Convinced by Team Trump’s legal arguments that the routine Justice Department methods for carefully handling seized documents aren’t good enough when investigating this particular former president, she ordered that a “special master” be tasked with playing referee to dictate what happens with classified documents that are evidence of a crime.
“This special master opinion is so bad it’s hard to know where to begin… her analysis of standing is terrible. Trump wouldn’t own these docs anyway, so why does he get a Master over them?”Neal Katyal, a national security law professor who was previously the nation’s top lawyer as the federal government’s solicitor general.
“The Court takes into account the undeniably unprecedented nature of the search of a former President’s residence,” she wrote, citing a potential lack of “customary cooperation between former and incumbent administrations regarding the ownership and exchange of documents” and stressing “the interest in ensuring the integrity of an orderly process amidst swirling allegations of bias and media leaks.
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