'Time for her to go': Judge Cannon sets off firestorm after tossing Trump docs case
An explosive ruling early Monday morning by U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon to toss the stolen government documents case against Donald Trump just hours before the Republican National Convention convened was greeted with outrage and disgust on social media.
According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, "Judge Cannon has dismissed the Trump documents case, citing violation of appointments clause," later adding, "Cannon says Jack Smith's appointment usurps legislative power.."
Reaction to the 93-page ruling, which goes against case law, was swift and furious, on X, formerly known as Twitter with one commenter noting, "This just before the Republican Convention? What a weird coincidence!"
"I’m no lawyer but this seems nuts to me. Our country is in a very bad place if we can’t no longer hold people accountable. She’s rolling the dice that he wins and she gets put on the Supreme Court," Rico wrote.
Pointing to her sketchy legal reasoning, Jacob wrote, "HOW? How does it do this? The DOJ can investigate violations of the law, how does it matter how it decides who the prosecutor is internally? How is that an 'appointment'?"
Stelenj observed, "So she's saying every single special prosecutor ever appointed was unconstitutional? Good to know right Hunter? I guess Weiss would be unconstitutional as well."
"This is insane. And literally all of this could have been avoided if another judge was assigned to this case. Hopefully this will get appealed," Austin Art suggested.
Alan Krauss, wrote, "Another sad day for America."
Tiffany noted, "For anyone who missed it, Clarance Thomas gave her the needed ammunition to do this with his concurrence in the immunity case."
"She needs to be impeached and removed from the bench for blatant bias and a staggering level of incompetence. This matter has been ruled on already," Dom suggested.
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