Judge Reinhart must be feeling the heat from his superiors on the circuit for having OK’d the warrant without their input.
One has to wonder if he even has the authority to sign such warrants.
Years ago, in Atlanta, people charged with felonies would receive a preliminary hearing in city court. Of course, the judges would go through the motions, deny any bail request and have everything transferred over to Fulton county. It was just the way it had always been done.
One day a defense attorney asked how a city judge, hearing traffic violations and city ordinance violations had the authority to hear arguments and sign warrants for cases involving murder, rape and robbery.
The lawyer was right.
Wonder if something like that applies in this instance.
“Judge Reinhart must be feeling the heat from his superiors on the circuit for having OK’d the warrant without their input.”
That is what I am thinking. He is trying to cover his a$$.
Let me trot out my favorite hobby horse: I highly suspect that the DoJ/FBI determined in advance when the “regular” magistrate would be away, and timed their application for the warrant accordingly. Reinhart likely participated in that, and made sure he would be the “next available substitute magistrate”. Possibly Reinhart feels a bit used now, but more likely he’s just going to dribble out release of unimportant items to cover his complicity.
This needs to be out of Reinhart’s hands for many reasons.