I Think This Judge Cannon Might Not Be on the Level

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🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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CAAAANNNONNNNNBALLLLLL! Judge Aileen Cannon has just made a major splash in the Trump trials by dismissing the entire federal classified documents case based on her findings that special prosecutor Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed. We try our best to pretend that this 93-page decision is a regular order released by a normal judge, at least for a few minutes, before moving on to ask: Should we have seen this coming? Does this explain Clarence Thomas’s weirdly unprompted thoughts on the same subject in the Trump immunity case earlier this month? What happens next, and is there any chance it could happen without Fort Pierce, Florida’s best, worst, and only federal judge?

BONUS PATRON CONTENT: Patrons will also hear us listen to the New York Times rub its collective chin as its The Daily podcast considers Aileen Cannon’s mysterious ways and unknowable motives.

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0:00.0	But when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
0:07.0	He gags me! What's my crime? I got bold and a little negligent? Nope!
0:24.0	Bales are coming to take away my will to live.
0:29.0	Book them low.
0:32.0	One count of being a bear and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
0:37.0	I hate the Supreme Court. Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
0:47.0	This is episode 1,052.
0:49.0	I'm your host Thomas Smith, and that over there is real life attorney Matt Cameron why does it always
0:54.8	feel like it's been way too long Matt I just always miss you how are you doing it's
0:58.4	you too it's been extra long I'm still in the afterglow of visiting a
1:01.7	functioning democracy.
1:03.0	I had a great time in Scotland.
1:05.0	I appreciate the time.
1:06.0	Geez.
1:07.0	It's been a little weird over there, hasn't it?
1:09.0	But it's still function.
1:10.0	It's a functioning, you're right.
1:12.0	It's a functioning. I landed with. It's a functioning. I landed within hours of like a pretty good liberal victory not like a lefty victory, but certainly you know picked up a lot of labor. I will say too. I wanted to share that when I was in Edinburgh I stopped through and I just was walking around the
1:25.1	corner and here's a giant building that says the Supreme Court's they have a plural on there for some
1:29.4	reason and I thought how would I just stop into the Scottish Supreme Court?
1:32.8	Yeah, pretty much.
1:35.1	So I decided to stop into the Scottish Supreme Courts and I could not find the entrance
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