Okay, folks. Judge Aileen Cannon just dropped a bomb in Jack Smith’s classified documents case, sending leftist legal analysts into full meltdown mode. You love to see it.
You see, Cannon laid out two options for jury instructions:
1: If a past president keeps papers they shouldn’t, the jury can look at them. Then, they decide if the government is right about whether the papers are personal or for the president’s job.
2:When a president is in charge, they get to say if papers are personal or for their job. Nobody else can change that.
Seems simple enough.
But apparently that was too much for the ‘Protect Democracy!’ crowd.
🚨 BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has instructed Special Counsel Jack Smith to hand over ALL classified materials to a jury for scrutiny or risk a Trump acquittal by refusing to do so.https://t.co/o2dQMUiZx4
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) March 19, 2024
🚨BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon indicates that she might dismiss the classified documents case against Donald Trump.
Do you support this?🙋♂️ pic.twitter.com/6XtSCN2QUM
— Save America 🇺🇲 (@usanews0) March 19, 2024
Gateway Pundit reports:
Judge Aileen Cannon issued a jury instruction order in Jack Smith’s classified documents case and the leftist legal analysts are going apocalyptic.
Cannon gave two options for jury instructions.
The first option:
In a prosecution of a former president for allegedly retaining documents in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793(e), a jury is permitted to examine a record retained by a former president in his/her personal possession at the end of his/her presidency and make a factual finding as to whether the government has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that it is personal or presidential using the definitions set forth in the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
The second option is:
A president has sole authority under the PRA to categorize records as personal or presidential during his/her presidency. Neither a court nor a jury is permitted to make or review such a categorization decision. Although there is no formal means in the PRA by which a president is to make that categorization, an outgoing president’s decision to exclude what he/she considers to be personal records from presidential records transmitted to the National Archives and Records Administration constitutes a president’s categorization of those records as personal under the PRA.
CNN legal analyst Norm Eisen said both of Judge Cannon’s options for jury instructions are wrong.
“Cannon seems inclined to push the case to trial but is basically asking if she can stack the deck so Trump wins,” Norm Eisen said.
Judge Cannon Tells Corrupt Jack Smith Either Allow Jury to See 'Classified' Docs Taken from Mar-a-Lago or Abandon the Case https://t.co/SPzTU5Gq0h
— punghill (@punghill) March 20, 2024
Liberals are freaking out.
“We MUST remove Judge Cannon!!”
https://twitter.com/Charlie78886678/status/1770249563070255562
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