"As I have shown, had Judge Aileen Cannon left well enough alone, the government would have handed all Category B documents identified by the filter team back to Trump on September 1. Instead, she deliberately inflicted what she herself deemed to be further harm on Trump to justify intervening in the search of Trump's beach resort. And now she may have caused even more harm. That's because, by means that are not yet clear (but are likely due to a fuck-up by one of Cannon's own staffers),"
"Those inventories not only show Cannon's claims of injury to Trump were even more hackish than I imagined. But it creates the possibility that DOJ's filter team will attempt to retain some of the documents included in Category B, notably records pertaining to the Georgia fraud attempts and January 6, they otherwise wouldn't have. Start with the hackishness. The harm that Cannon sustained to justify intervening consisted of preventing DOJ from returning,"
Judge Aileen Cannon prevented the Department of Justice from returning Category B personal documents to Trump on the scheduled September 1 date, extending DOJ's withholding by at least two weeks to justify court intervention in the Mar-a-Lago search. Inventories for both Category A (government legal documents) and Category B (personal documents) were briefly posted on the docket, apparently due to a likely staff error, exposing weaknesses in the claimed injury and creating the possibility that the DOJ filter team could seek to retain Category B items, including records tied to Georgia fraud attempts and January 6. The only medical item was a long-public 2016-era physician letter.
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