Judge Aileen Cannon Does Trump’s Bidding in Dismissing Mar-a-Lago Case, Brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith. The Supreme Court Is to Blame.
This week is full of reminders that Donald Trump expects and rewards obedience—from Cannon’s Florida ruling, to Trump’s VP pick of JD Vance.
It was the latest of several moves in multiple courthouses this month reflecting the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s This is not how the law is to work. And yet, one need only glance through Cannon’s decision to see that reality at work Monday in her effort to do Trump’s bidding. the then-active independent counsel provision on a 7-1 vote; and work by Steven Calabresi, a co-founder of the Federalist Society for his descent into ranting pro-Trump posts at the Volokh Conspiracy. Notably, Calabresi was also backing Trump’s arguments before Cannon—and in other courts—as amicus.
Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court into an era in which precedent can selectively be ignored, eviscerated or overruled when it gets in the way of conservatives’ goals.
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