LA Times Column: How Jack Smith just called out Judge Aileen Cannon in the Trump classified records case
LA Times Column: How Jack Smith just called out Judge Aileen Cannon in the Trump classified records case
Column: How Jack Smith just called out Judge Aileen Cannon in the Trump classified records case
The Smith team then made its most important and aggressive move by noting that when judges have issued clearly erroneous jury instructions that doom prosecutions, “courts have permitted the government to obtain writs of mandamus.”
Even buried in a parenthetical as it is, the word “mandamus” jumps off the page as a threat to seek an extraordinary intervention by the appellate court. Smith has laid down the gauntlet, telling Cannon in no uncertain terms that if she doesn’t move to resolve Trump’s frivolous arguments well ahead of trial, he will bring a writ of mandamus to the 11th Circuit along with a motion to recuse her from the case. Providing this road map of his intentions puts Smith on firm footing to challenge the judge if she continues to dither.
Writ of mandamus from Wikipedia
Appreciate the info...it's funny they have a special way to officially say "nah, fuck you, do your job."
Until AI is smart enough to preside over our courtrooms in a purely unbiased fashion (ha!), we’ll be stuck with shitty humans running our shitty legal systems.
She probably won't know what means and to stupid to look it up. Or she will ignore it.
I DECLARE MANDAMUS ON ALL OF CONGRESS. EXPECTO MANDAMUS.
Apropos, since presiding judge seems to be invoking Writ of Douchebaggery