Wow! The D.O.J. filed a motion for a partial stay pending appeal on Cannon’s order, and holysh*t it is a total rebuke of the dingbat traitor trump-loving judge’s ruling. I don’t know how many other ways the D.O.J. could have expressed how f***ed up her order was. They spent a good part of the motion explaining, demonstrating, reiterating, and reiterating again that under no circumstances does traitor trump have a personal or executive privilege to classified documents. Full stop! Of course, the government made that same argument in their original briefing, but the idiot judge basically made sh*t up to explain why executive privilege could still apply to traitor trump. She heavily relied on the optics that traitor trump’s reputation would be harmed. Boo-hoo. Of course, all conservatives are snowflakes.
They also questioned her order for the D.O.J. to halt investigating traitor trump for crimes which is implied if they are unable to review the documents. This is my favorite part of the motion: “In United States v. Nixon, the Supreme Court emphasized that privilege claims ‘must be considered in light of our historic commitment to the rule of law’ and ‘[t]he need to develop all relevant facts in the adversary system,’ 418 U.S. at 708-09, and the Court thus held that executive privilege ‘must yield to the demonstrated, specific need for evidence in a pending criminal trial,’ id. at 713. This case does not involve a pending trial, but the need for the classified records is even more clearly demonstrated and specific here: The government is investigating potential violations of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), which prohibits unauthorized retention of national defense information. The classified records are not merely relevant evidence; they are the very objects of the relevant criminal statute.” In other words, barring review of these documents is not merely a roadblock to investigating a criminal case that can be overcome by relying on other evidence; it is the heart of the case. It’s like asking the F.B.I to investigate a murder, but they can’t use the dead body with a knife in the back in the process. The dead body is evidence of a murder; a murder happened because we see the dead body! To say investigators are blocked from using the dead body is asinine, to say the least. Yet, that’s what Judge Cannon order nonetheless.
The government’s motion just eviscerates the judge’s entire opinion and clearly lays bare her ulterior motive is to help traitor trump delay criminal proceedings. What else are we to glean from her legal “reasoning?” I would hate to think she actually believed her legal logic was sound because that makes dingbat Cannon look even more incompetent. If she genuinely thought what she wrote was a convincing argument, then God help all her future rulings. But I guess this is what America gets (and deserves) when RepubliKKKlans are allowed to install their sycophants on the federal bench — judges who are f***ing clueless. We’ll be living with this disaster called Judge Cannon for 20 years. Oh, well. Welcome to stupid America!