'All bets are off' if appeals court wades into Judge Cannon's Trump cover-up: MS NOW
An order from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that a report from special counsel Jack Smith about his investigation of Donald Trump should be kept under wraps may not be as ironclad as she asserted on Monday.
Cannon, the controversial Trump-appointed judge, has been accused of running interference for the president and some of his close associates after they were accused of hoarding stolen government documents at Mar-a-Lago, with boxes discovered sitting in a ballroom and in a barely used bathroom.
According to Cannon, Smith was illegally appointed, making his investigation equally illegal, and the report, compiled after the criminal case was dismissed due to the president being re-elected, was “a concerning breach of the spirit of the Dismissal Order is an understatement, if not an outright violation of it," she wrote in her decision Monday.
On MS NOW, legal analyst Lisa Rubin was asked if that will be the last time Americans will hear about the report, to which she replied, “Yes and no.”
“One of the things that Judge Cannon notes is that no party to the actual proceeding contested her ruling today, meaning both the Department of Justice and anyone affected by the indictment,” Rubin told host Anna Cabrera, “They were all in unanimity that the report should not be released. However, there are two public interest groups, American Oversight and the [Knight] First Amendment Institute, that have tried to intervene in this case.”
“She [Cannon] has said they do not have the right to intervene, but they are appealing that ruling,” she added. “If the 11th Circuit, that's the Federal Court of Appeals that oversees her, decides that they do have a stake in what's going on here, all bets are off on whether this order today ultimately could be reversed.”
- YouTube youtu.be