Posted on 12/08/2022 5:22:57 PM PST by Coronal
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump declined Thursday to appeal a court order ending his lawsuit challenging the FBI’s seizure of documents from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, paving the way for investigators to finally get hold of the bulk of documents collected in the search.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week dismissed the lawsuit he filed after the Aug. 8 search. The appeals court overturned U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon’s order appointing a special master to review the trove of documents federal agents recovered and preventing the government from using them in its investigation into Trump’s possession of sensitive records.
The appeals court had given Trump until Thursday to appeal to the full 11th Circuit or the Supreme Court and try to get a stay before the order took effect. No appeal was filed.
While Trump's team had little hope of overturning the ruling, the decision not to attempt an appeal — which was first reported by CNN — is somewhat surprising. After the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, a top Trump adviser familiar with his legal strategy said Trump would probably “appeal everything to the Supreme Court,” adding, “We’re fighting everything.”
Lifting the restrictions on the Justice Department’s investigation could allow investigators to proceed with the probe more quickly, finally allowing them to review thousands of pages of documents that had been kept from them pending a review for privilege issues by the special master.
The appeals court had reversed part of Cannon's order that blocked investigators from being able to use classified documents recovered in the search for their criminal probe. It also barred the special master from reviewing those documents, a decision Trump appealed to the Supreme Court in October and lost.
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Why fight the inevitable corrupt appeal court decisions? The Supreme Court wouldn’t have his back anyway. They have no credibility when it comes to protecting the powers of the Executive Branch, specifically when it’s the Executive powers of President Donald Trump.
You got to know when to fold ‘em.
One of the original theories when Trump filed this lawsuit, was that it was intended to delay the DOJ investigation long enough until after the 2020 midterm election, to give him time to announce his new Presidential campaign, in case that announcement might buy him some cover from the DOJ attempting to prosecute a potential Presidential candidate.
With the announcement of the Special Counsel, the DOJ aholes made it crystal clear they’re willing to go ahead with prosecution, at least the possibility of it, which made the delay that Trump’s original suit provided less important. At this point, he’d probably rather speed things up on what will happen, than slow them down, and this suit was simply a procedural matter, and nothing to do with the merits.
So it’s actually the right call, just don’t expect NBC News to admit that.
2022* midterm
Ya gotta love how it takes THREE far-left morons to write a news story.
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