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The handy specially biased judge sitting in West Palm Beach sided with her master again in the government documents case. Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon, on the bench for less than two years, overruled the senior federal judge appointed by her to review the 11,000 documents at issue. Judge Dearie has 36 years of experience including tenure on the secret FISA court that overseas intelligence operations. He ordered Trumps' minions to certify the accuracy of the FBI's inventory of the seized documents. Der Leader has been publicly claiming that the FBI planted documents illegally stored at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Knowing that the claim is more of their client's bombast, his lawyers objected to Dearie ordering them to certify the inventory. Cannon, who does not lack audacity in demonstrating where her loyalties lie, said Trump does not have to admit to the accuracy of the inventory at this point in the proceedings. It is only a minor victory, but may be a correct one since Trump could resort to the bogus defense at trial. Admitting the inventory's accuracy now would foreclose that defense, and perhaps provide grounds for appeal.
Prisons are full of people who claim the government framed them. More significant is that Cannon allowed Individual One's defense team to delay proceedings further. She pushed the due date for the special master to complete his review into December. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe called Judge Cannon's court a "sideshow" now that the Eleventh Circuit rule in favor of the Justice Department continuing its criminal investigation. A conservative commentator called her, "an embarrassment to the federal judiciary". Judge Dearie is Trump's choice, but apparently he got more than he asked.