Today is Thursday, March 14, 2024. Here we go again! The Orange Turd desperately tired to have his mishandling of classified documents case thrown out by his ally, Judge Aileen Cannon, in an unprecedented hours-long hearing in which Drumpf’s legal team and special counsel Jack Smith who is prosecuting the son of a bitch – but we still don’t know when, if at any time! – squared off in the judge’s chambers before the partisan judge denied Trump’s motion to dismiss charges based on unconstitutional vagueness. This development is reported on in a CNN article by Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz entitled “Takeaways from the hearing on Trump’s attempt to dismiss the mishandling classified documents charges.”

Today U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon declined to toss out the classified documents case against the former president after hours of arguments delivered by Trump’s brazen legal team. Pundits wonder, however, that the judge didn’t even need to have such a hearing; she could have unequivocally thrown out Team Drumpf’s arguments to toss out the case without conducting this hearing at all. Thus more time is being lost here in the adjudication of this criminal case.

Before the judge were two of the nine motions to dismiss that the defendants have filed in the case.

Cannon first heard Chump’s claim that the law prosecutors used to charge him for allegedly retaining national defense records without authorization was too vague to be used against him. I don’t see how this could be construed as “too vague,” can you? But fewer than three hours after the hearing, Cannon rejected that claim. Thank God!

Drumpf’s second motion argued that the Presidential Records Act (PRA) – which governs how White House records are handled by an outgoing administration – required that the case be thrown out.

Cannon hasn’t yet ruled on the second claim. However, the judge has expressed skepticism during the hearing toward both requests for the charges to be dismissed, and she suggested that some of the issues the Drumpf legal team was raising would be better left to a jury to consider. So when are we ever going to get that trial where a jury would be the final arbiter of this preposterous argument, Ms. Cannon?

Here are some takeaways from today’s hearing:

Throwing out charges because law was vague would be ‘extraordinary,’ judge says

The morning session was focused on Drumpf’s ultimately rejected argument that the law prohibiting the unlawful retention of national defense information was too ambiguous to be applied to his alleged conduct.

Here Cannon said it would be an “extraordinary step” for her to throw out those charges on the basis that they were unconstitutionally vague.

Cannon said, “You understand, of course, that finding a statute unconstitutionally vague is an extraordinary step.” She was addressing Trump attorney Emile Bove.

Cannon: Trump’s arguments would ‘gut’ the Presidential Records Act (PRA)

The judge was similarly skeptical of the second Drumpf request being argued today: that, because he has supposedly unlimited power to decide which documents from his White House were personal, the case against him should be dismissed.

Here Cannon leaned favorably toward this disgraced ex-president when she acceded that his lawyers were making some “forceful” arguments regarding his ability to designate the records as personal by taking them to his Mar-a-Lago resort at the end of his disastrous presidency. Is she shitting us? So very sensitive classified documents could be taken by this grifter to barter with our adversaries without any consequence here is what Cannon is suggesting to be appropriate in Drumpf’s behalf.

Ultimately, this unfair judge did say that the argument posited here could not be dismissed, saying the defense’s arguments would effectively “gut the PRA altogether” and allow future presidents to say clearly presidential documents are personal.

Cannon said some of Trump’s concerns should be up to the jury

The judge did say repeatedly during this long session that some of Dump’s arguments are best suited for a jury to decide during his eventual trial. Whenever that will go on, everyone wonders.

In this case, Cannon said that Drumpf’s legal team’s supposition that Drumpf didn’t know he was breaking the law when he took documents to Mar-a-Lago were “premature.”

She did say, however, that the arguments could be a “forceful” trial defense, signaling that she is sympathetic to some of the former president’s complaints about the criminal case. Boy, I’m sure Jack Smith really despises this judge for her many sympathetic rulings in favor of defendant Donald Duck.

MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin shot down the entire Chump legal defense argument about the PRA that Drumpf is arguing, that anything is available to take home after leaving office. She mentioned the hearing itself was cause for concern. I thought that this measure was unnecessary if we had anyone other than Aileen Cannon presiding over this case.

“The Presidential Records Act doesn’t support the interpretation and almost the perversion that Donald Trump is trying to give to it,” Rubin said. She added, “That the Presidential Records Act would hold that any number of the things Donald Trump took with him are inherently presidential and should have gone to the National Archives. There was a process to follow. The people in the White House surrounding Donald Trump were well aware of the process and in communication with the National Archives before he left the White House, let alone after it was brought to his attention, we’re missing stuff – the Kim Jong Un letter, the letter Barack Obama left for [him]. That kicked off a cat-and-mouse game with the National Archives, then the FBI was chasing after Trump to collect all the things he took. As you well know, he was not honest with them at any step of the process. He deluded his own lawyers by having the boxes moved in this bizarre three-card monte he was playing with his legal team. I don’t think it’ll hold up.”

The legal expert said it was alarming that the judge would even consider the ex-president’s argument. Rubin wondered why the judge has yet to issue a scheduling order setting a trial date. She said, “In the meantime, she’s hearing arguments today on two motions to dismiss.” Here Rubin conjectures that Cannon might even be considering getting rid of the case without setting a trial date. This would be appalling. Rubin said “That is frightening, given the gravity of the charges here and the evidence that supports those charges.”

In another case confronting the Orange Hemorrhoid, now we’re hearing that the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is going to delay Drumpf’s criminal trial for up to 30 days, according to a court filing. The trial was originally scheduled to start on March 25, about two weeks from now.

This frustrating delay is in order to give Drumpf’s lawyers time to review new materials turned over by federal prosecutors this week, the DA’s office said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York sent about 31,000 pages of discovery material yesterday and will have more to share, the new filing states. There is finger pointing now on both sides as to the reason behind the new delay. Trump’s team is accusing Bragg’s office of having withheld the material, while Bragg’s team contends that Drumpf’s legal aces was delayed in issuing the subpoena that led to the new information being turned over.

Whoever is responsible for this pause in the first trial that should have started in late March is immaterial now. What is undeniably true is that this bastard is succeeding wonderfully in his attempts to delay all of his trials, even beyond Election Day, it now seems. This is soooo frustrating and egregious! I ask, when is there ever going to be accountability for this devil?

Stay safe and be well.