INDICTMENT WATCH: Judge Cannon's Bonkers-Adjacent Decision to Dismiss Trump's Case

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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed on Monday the charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith against former President Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents. So, um, what just happened? Sarah Isgur and special guest David French discuss. The Agenda: -Why Judge Cannon thinks Jack Smith's position is illegal. -Rating the decision, from solid law to bonkerstown. -What will the DOJ do now? -Trump's Law of Felicitous Circumstances. -When will Adaam finally let the Grizzlies into his heart? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready? I was born ready. Welcome to an emergency advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isker, that's David French,
0:23.2	and we are only here to talk about Judge Eileen Cannon
0:26.9	dismissing the classified documents case
0:29.5	brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith down in Florida.
0:34.4	First off, David, on a scale of 1 to 10,
0:37.9	what's your bonkers level?
0:39.8	OK, so 10 is max bonkers, and one is, one is solid, pure law.
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.8	I'm going to go with an 8.5.
0:48.8	I'm calling it Bonkers adjacent, not Bonkers Town. Um, yeah. adjacent not
1:04.7	Um, yeah, okay. I'm maybe 7.5 to 8. I don't think we're gonna be that far off. I've described this is not frivolous but mistaken. Yes. And we'll, I think our order of operations here, we're going to talk about what the decision
1:10.5	actually says, how she got to this.
1:12.8	Then we'll talk about next steps for the Department of Justice,
1:15.6	what this actually means for the case.
1:17.3	Last, talk about how this fits into theories about Eileen Cannon.
1:22.3	That works for you?
1:23.0	That works well for me.
1:24.9	Okay, so her decision comes from the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.
1:30.8	So I shall read it. The President shall nominate. the president shall
1:34.0	shall nominate and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate shall
1:37.3	appoint ambassadors other public ministers and consuls judges of the Supreme
1:41.0	Court and all other officers of the United States whose
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