11th circuit court just lifted bar on classified evidence

So much for court shopping. The court below was a loose "Cannon" but the conservative appellate judges are a different, and better, story.
 
So much for court shopping. The court below was a loose "Cannon" but the conservative appellate judges are a different, and better, story.

Two of the tree were appointed by Trump

I’m glad they did the right thing anyway
 
So much for court shopping. The court below was a loose "Cannon" but the conservative appellate judges are a different, and better, story.

Two trump appointees on this unanimous three judge panel.
 

From your link:

"The court also pointedly noted that Trump had presented no evidence that he had declassified the sensitive records, as he has repeatedly maintained, and rejected the possibility that Trump could have an “individual interest in or need for” the roughly 100 documents marked as classified."

Nice! That was his only hope.. he's f'd now!
 
I don’t think the SCOTUS would save him either


They are worrying about their reputations


And rightly so
 
Will trump take it to the SCOTUS?

Of course. He'll stall anyway he can. That's been his M.O. He's hoping national politics will go his way so he can use his cult followers' influence to shut all prosecutions down, like he did when he appointed Barr to shut down and whitewash the Mueller probe.
 
So much for court shopping. The court below was a loose "Cannon" but the conservative appellate judges are a different, and better, story.

Two of them were trump appointees. It didn't help him that time. Honestly, I thought the "special master" agreeing with the DOJ so quickly was a bit of a "head fake". I didn't think that it would be that fast of a decision and so anti-trump. I guess some people, even the ones trump picks and appoints are rational human beings doing their actual duty. Cannon is not one of those people and her future will probably be in TV.. I don't think any president will appoint her to a higher court, ever. She's proven to be a Bozo, even to fellow trump appointees.
 
I don’t think the SCOTUS would save him either


They are worrying about their reputations


And rightly so

Well, they also know law and respect it. Not a chance of reversal by the high court of this unanimous decision. I doubt Trump will even attempt it.
 
Courts HAVE NO SAY IN WHAT IS OR IS NOT CLASSIFIED.


IT IS PURLEY A PRESIDENTIAL POWER. PERIOD.

The court didn't claim a right to decide what is classified. It said 1) Trump presented no evidence he declassified the documents and 2) more important, it doesn't matter whether they are classified or not. The issue is whether they are personal documents that are now the property of Donald Trump or government documents that are not Trump's property. The court held that the documents "belong to the people" and the government, not Trump, is the appointed custodian of them for the people.
 
The court didn't claim a right to decide what is classified. It said 1) Trump presented no evidence he declassified the documents and 2) more important, it doesn't matter whether they are classified or not. The issue is whether they are personal documents that are now the property of Donald Trump or government documents that are not Trump's property. The court held that the documents "belong to the people" and the government, not Trump, is the appointed custodian of them for the people.

100 of the 11,000 documents......and the issue will still have to be revisited in the trial......this is limited to the preliminary injunction........
 
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