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Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday overruled the special master she appointed to review thousands of documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, shielding former President Donald Trump from addressing his claims that documents may have been "planted" or "declassified" in court.

Cannon, a Trump appointee in southern Florida, issued an order extending the timeline of the review after Trump's lawyers objected to the expedited schedule laid out by special master Raymond Dearie, who was chosen from a list proposed by Trump's lawyers. Under the new order, the review and any surrounding issues around Dearie's rulings "will almost certainly" stretch into next year, according to Politico.

Cannon, who has served on the bench for less than two years, also overruled Dearie, a Reagan appointee who has served for 36 years, on his requirement that Trump assert whether the FBI's inventory of seized items is accurate, effectively challenging his public claim that agents may have "planted" evidence.

"There shall be no separate requirement on Plaintiff at this stage, prior to the review of any of the Seized Materials, to lodge ex ante final objections to the accuracy of Defendant's Inventory, its descriptions, or its contents. The Court's Appointment Order did not contemplate that obligation," Cannon wrote.

She wrote that if any issues rise during the review "that require reconsideration of the Inventory or the need to object to its contents, the parties shall make those matters known to the Special Master for appropriate resolution and recommendation to this Court."

Cannon also rejected other parts of Dearie's plan for the review, giving Trump's lawyers additional weeks to assert whether they believe any documents are covered by attorney-client privilege or executive privilege.

"If Judge Cannon was going to continue calling every ball in Trump's favor, I'm not at all sure why she felt the need to appoint a special master to review the documents the government seized from Mar-a-Lago," tweeted Joyce Vance, a former U.S. attorney. "No real surprises here. The name of the game is delay. Judge Cannon countermanded Judge Dearie's streamlined schedule & helped Trump advance his usual delay game in litigation. That means it could be late December before DOJ can use documents it recovered from Mar-a-Lago."

Cannon previously came under criticism for repeatedly siding with Trump in the case. Cannon's initial order barred the Justice Department from continuing its criminal investigation into the documents and ordered documents marked classified to be included in the special master review and shared with Trump's lawyers. A federal appeals court overturned those rulings, arguing that she had abused her discretion and that Trump "not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents."

Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe said that Cannon's order on Thursday was "clearly wrong."

"But she's a sideshow now that the Court of Appeals has lifted her injunction with respect to the classified documents," he tweeted. "On the eve of her stupidly extended deadline, DOJ should indict Trump and render her delays and game playing moot."

Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said the order was a "minor win" for Trump.

"But this doesn't change the difficult position Trump is in," he added. "He still has to take a position regarding every seized document."

Some legal experts criticized Cannon for repeatedly intervening on Trump's behalf.

"She's an embarrassment to the federal judiciary," wrote conservative attorney George Conway.

"Cannon's latest order has neither law nor reason on its side," tweeted former U.S. Attorney Harry Litman. "Judges never micromanage special masters this way," he said.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, who served on special counsel Bob Mueller's team, said that the order was "one more piece of evidence that she is completely unfit to serve on the bench."

"What does Donald Trump have on Judge Cannon or her husband?" Weissmann wrote. "Something is SO off in her decisions (and the court of appeals said as much) that it is impossible not to ask this question in all seriousness."

Read Cannon's full order below:

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BREAKING: Trump LOSES bigly: 11th Circuit rules Judge Cannon was incorrect, eliminates her ruling, orders case be dismissed.

Special master: gone.

All restrictions on DOJ use of recovered Mar-a-Lago documents: gone.

Massive DOJ win. Great day for democracy and the rule of law.

Because trump is all about LAW & ORDER.

We all have a good idea of the sort of special master Trump would really prefer. 

Why not pick Vladimir Putin? He’s probably seen most of the documents already. That would save a lot of time.

It pains me to say this, but the trump judge Aileen Cannon is gonna be on the Supreme Court someday. This is her conservative litmus test, and she's passing with flying colors. She is ignoring the law because nobody can make her enforce it. She's giving trump everything he wants and she's not even pretending to be impartial, she's just up and saying "I work for him. Whatever he asks for, he gets." He asks for a special master, she gives him a special master. The special master tells him he has to back up his claims, he says he doesn't want to, she tells the special master he doesn't have to. I guarantee you that whenever the special master finishes looking over the stolen documents and concludes trump stole them, she'll ignore all his findings and insist the DOJ planted them and ask SCOTUS to step in because the 11th circuit already decided against trump. Cannon is letting Republicans know that she will actively and unapologetically abuse her power to protect the party, and because she's less than 50 that means her name is at the top of their shortlist for SCOTUS nominees, I can feel it in my bones. If Trump wins in 2024, she'll be on the bench in January 2025. The next justice to retire or die will probablt be Thomas, but he's already the furthest right, so Republicans don't have much to gain from replacing him (they'd only encourage him to retire to prevent Dems from replacing him; he doesn't want to pull a Ginsburg). What I think is more likely to happen is Republicans "encourage" John Roberts to retore, a la Anthony Kennedy in 2018, because of the 6 conservatives he's the closest to the center, a potential swingvote that needs to be gotten rid of and replaced with someone who will vote the party line no matter what. Cannon has proven herself as a Republican asset, and trump or desantis or cruz will reward her as soon as possible. I'm getting mad over a hypothetical, I'm literally starting an argument in my own head and losing, this is madness, but I know in my heart of hearts it's gonna happen. It may not be exactly as I predict, maybe Roberts will stay on and Sotomayor or Kagan or Jackson will have an "accident," or maybe Republicans will expand the court just to rub salt in the Democrats' wounds and do what they were unwilling to. I don't know the specifics, I just know that we are going to be hearing Cannon's name again very soon. I had never heard of Gorsuch or Kavanaugh or Barrett before they were nominated, but Cannon is gonna be a familiar face. The system is so broken there really is no hope for fixing it; we would need a complete reboot, new constitution, new offices, new checks and balances, term limits, age limits, impartial appointments, enforcable codes of ethics, but even that's a fantasy because Republicans would do everything in their power to make it partial and only enforce it against judges they don't like. How do we mvoe forward without all our attritional war? They will never stop, even if we break their spirits. The Confederates broke, but they played the long game and eventually won. The Nazis broke, but they played the long game and now currently winning all around the world. Republicans aren't even close to breaking, they're still on top, they hold all the cards, so how do we possibly move forward when half the population is deadset on dominating the other half in an absolute monarchy? They are a cancer that is destroying our civilization from within, but they don't care because they're winning! The cancer doesn't think of itself as cancer, it thinks of itself as stronger tissue taking resources away from weaker tissue. How do you excise it when it's already spread to every vital organ? It's more cancer than host at this point, and you'd think the whole thing would eventually collapse and die, but no, it's evolved into The Thing and is spreading itself to other hosts, copying, assimilating, replacing, contagious cancer that will consume the world before eventually turning on itself when no healthy tissue remains.

BREAKING: Trump’s Lawyers ATTACK Special Master who THEY WANTED in new HUMILIATING legal filing

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Sep 19, 2022

In a stunning and embarrassing legal filing, Donald Trump’s lawyers just criticized the Special Master Judge Raymond Dearies proposed case management order because it asked Trump to answer what documents he declassified. Trump’s lawyers told Judge Dearie in the filing that they don’t want to answer that question now. Trump is not off to a good start before the special master.

A panel of judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has granted a request from the Justice Department to stay portions of a ruling by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that had effectively paused the government's investigation into former President Donald Trump's potential mishandling of classified records after leaving office.

The three-judge panel, comprised of two Trump appointees and a Barack Obama appointee, ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the Justice Department is no longer enjoined from investigating the documents with classification markings that were recovered from Mar-a-Lago and will no longer have to submit those materials to special master Ray Dearie for his review.

"[Trump] has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents," the panel wrote in its ruling. "Nor has he established that the current administration has waived that requirement for these documents."

The judges also agreed with the Justice Department that Trump has submitted no record or claim that he ever declassified the documents at issue -- which undercut Trump's statements on social media otherwise. His team resisted stating as much when pressed by Dearie during a separate hearing on Tuesday.

"In any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal," the judges wrote. "So even if we assumed that Plaintiff did declassify some or all of the documents, that would not explain why he has a personal interest in them."

Earlier this month, Judge Cannon, who was nominated by Trump, granted his request for a special master to review what was taken by the FBI in a court-authorized search of Mar-a-Lago last month.

The special master's review, as ordered by Cannon, was to be for items that might be covered by both attorney-client privilege and executive privilege, even though Trump is no longer the president and has never asserted privilege over any specific records.

Cannon's ruling, which enjoined the government from further use of the seized documents as part of its criminal investigation, was widely criticized by legal experts with a range of political views -- including Trump's former Attorney General William Barr.

"The Court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege," Cannon wrote. She cited "the need to ensure at least the appearance of fairness and integrity under the extraordinary circumstances presented."

In a filing earlier this week, Trump's legal team urged the appellate court not to grant a stay, arguing in part: "The District Court did not err in temporarily enjoining the Government's review and use of records bearing classification markings for criminal investigative purposes because the merits support that narrowly tailored injunction." The Trump attorneys called the government's investigation "both unprecedented and misguided" and repeated their claim that it was merely "a document storage dispute that has spiraled out of control."

The 11th Circuit panel ruled Wednesday that they don't believe Trump would risk irreparable injury if Cannon's order is partially stayed because he has not asserted attorney-client privilege over any of the documents at issue with classification markings.

The three judges undercut Cannon directly as well, noting the government is "substantially likely to succeed" in showing she "abused [her] discretion in exercising jurisdiction over [Trump's] motion as it concerns the classified documents."

"The engrained principle that 'courts must exercise the traditional reluctance to intrude upon the authority of the Executive in military and national security affairs' guides our review of the United States's proffered national-security concerns," the appellate judges wrote.

The Justice Department previously requested that Cannon partially stay her order, relating to the special master and review of classified documents. But she rejected that motion and the government sought an appeal.

Cannon, in denying the government's request of a stay, wrote that she was not willing to accept their assertions that the roughly 100 documents taken from Mar-a-Lago were classified -- even though they were labeled as such, with some bearing "SECRET" and "TOP SECRET/SCI" markings.

FBI photograph of redacted documents and classified cover sheets recovered from a container stored in former U.S. president Donald Trump's Florida estate that was included in a U.S. Department of Justice filing Aug. 30, 2022. (U.S. Department Of Justice via Reuters)

"The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government's conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion," Cannon wrote in her rejection.

She approached with heavy skepticism the government's arguments about the documents with classified markings and the government's claims that Trump has no right to the materials at all.

In its motion last week for a partial stay from the 11th Circuit, the Justice Department argued that Cannon "has entered an unprecedented order enjoining the Executive Branch's use of its own highly classified records in a criminal investigation with direct implications for national security."

And while Cannon ruled that the intelligence community could continue its own assessment of the possible national security risks from Trump's handling of the documents, the government said in court papers that such a separation was not feasible.

The 11th Circuit judges agreed with the Department of Justice.

They wrote in their Wednesday ruling that Cannon's effort to distinguish the intelligence committee's classification review from the FBI's own criminal investigation was "untenable" and that they believe the FBI has "sufficiently explained how and why its national-security review is inextricably intertwined with its criminal investigation."

"No party has offered anything beyond speculation to undermine the United States's representation—supported by sworn testimony—that findings from the criminal investigation may be critical to its national-security review," the judges wrote. "According to the United States, the criminal investigation will seek to determine, among other things, the identity of anyone who accessed the classified materials; whether any particular classified materials were compromised; and whether additional classified materials may be unaccounted for. As [Trump] acknowledges, backwards-looking inquiries are the domain of the criminal investigators."

"It would be difficult, if not impossible, for the United States to answer these critical questions if its criminal investigators are not permitted to review the seized classified materials," they added.

In another rejection of Cannon's assessment, the judges wrote that they agreed with the government's arguments that allowing special master Dearie, as an outside third-party, to examine the classified records with Trump's legal team could "impose irreparable harm."

"The Supreme Court has recognized that for reasons 'too obvious to call for enlarged discussion, the protection of classified information must be committed to the broad discretion of the agency responsible, and this must include broad discretion to determine who may have access to it,'" they wrote. "As a result, courts should order review of such materials in only the most extraordinary circumstances. The record does not allow for the conclusion that this is such a circumstance."

Former President Trump could seek to appeal to the full 11th Circuit Court of Appeals or even potentially the Supreme Court, but it's unclear how long it would take either to act on their appeal while the Justice Department has access to the documents.

there are so many amazing and powerful benders in atla but what i love about zuko is that whether or not he can use his bending in that moment has zero (0) bearing on how much he’s going to absolutely kick your ass. no bending? that’s fine - he’s got swords. no swords or bending? that’s fine - he’s literally just going to beat you up. if you’re REALLY unlucky then you get all three. as a treat.

Not only did the Doctor offer to travel with the Toymaker, playing games across the cosmos, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE MASTER, but he ALSO left the Master JUST LAYING THERE on the top of UNIT tower. By the end of it, there were TWO WHOLE DOCTORS and NEITHER of them stopped to pick my poor little cringe-fail off the floor. They either assumed he got folded into the box with the Toymaker or decided to leave him there, and I don't know which is worse. The Master’s going to complain SO MUCH about this, and it'll probably be his evil backstory for a little while.