Judge Cannon Lights Up Jack Smith for Behavior in Trump Classified Docs CaseBy Bonchie
August 07, 2023
Special Counsel Jack Smith is quickly learning that not all judges can be counted on to be left-wing hacks.
Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump regarding classified documents kept at Mar-a-Lago, pulled no punches on Monday after unsealing two motions made by the DOJ.
The first motion has to do with a request for a Garcia hearing, which would lay out alleged conflicts of interest involving a defendant’s attorney and witnesses that are planned to be called by the prosecution, while the second motion was a request to seal a supplement in order to “to comport with grand jury secrecy.”
As you’ll see, the second motion is the one that really backfired.
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In other words, the special counsel wanted to keep certain things hidden from the public in order to keep mining another grand jury that doesn’t even reside in Cannon’s district for related charges.
Instead of granting the motions, the judge unsealed both of them to make them public and is now demanding answers from Smith on why he’s even continuing to use an out-of-district grand jury for matters pertinent to the prosecution in her court.
Among other topics as raised in the Motion, the response shall address the legal propriety of using an out-of-district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the instant indicted matter in this district. The Special Counsel shall respond to that discussion in a Reply in Support of the Motion [ECF No. 97], due on or before August 22, 2023.
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Source:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/08/07/judge-cannon-lights-up-jack-smith-for-behavior-in-trump-classified-docs-case-n788870
