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Judge Cannon denies Trump's last-ditch bid to suppress Jack Smith's 2020 election report (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As reported by legal analyst Adam Klasfeld on BlueSky, Cannon denied an emergency motion filed by attorneys representing Trump codefendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were both implicated in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

Cannon also set a date of Friday, January 17th for a hearing on whether to authorize the release of Smith's final report on the documents case, which she dismissed last year after finding that Smith was not properly appointed as special counsel.

Unless further legal challenges arise, the United States Department of Justice can release the first volume of Smith's final report as soon as Tuesday, January 14th.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Did he deny her a post or something? I don't get it.

[–] GroundedGator 4 points 1 week ago

She's trying to save face. She has no power or jurisdiction here.

Once she dismissed the case and it headed to the 11th on appeal, she lost any actual ability to do anything regarding the case with the exception of orders she made that were not on appeal (there were none).

Additionally she has no power to release volume 2 of the report. That power is only held with the DOJ. Jack Smith even stated that it should not be released as long as the case against the conspirators still survived. Releasing that report would likely damage the case against them. However, if that happens, it would likely mean Trump would not need to pardon them to stop the prosecution. While the report may be seen as a threat to Trump, anyone who supports him refuses to believe he did anyone wing and I doubt anyone who would actually read it would have a change of heart.

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