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'Cause a bathroom of boxes of classified documents at Mobster Lago means nothing.
Maybe Trump won't be forever clear, but will probably be too feeble or dead instead.
hookaleft
(1,400 posts)There is a review right now in the 11th circuit.
dweller
(28,932 posts)of what exactly ?
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Knight Institute Urges Eleventh Circuit to Reverse District Court Order Barring Release of Special Counsel Jack Smiths Report
United States v. Trump
A motion to intervene in Trump classified documents case seeking release of Special Counsels report.
On February 24, 2025, the Knight Institute filed a motion to intervene asking Judge Aileen Cannon, who presided over the now-abandoned prosecution of President Trump under the Espionage Act, to release Special Counsel Jack Smiths report about Trumps mishandling of classified information at Mar-a-Lago. The public has an extraordinary interest in the report, which concerns allegations of grave criminal conduct by the nations highest-ranking official.
The Institutes motion to intervene argues that a redacted copy of the report in the district courts files should be made public under the First Amendment and common law right of access to judicial documents. The motion also asks the court to lift an injunction prohibiting the Department of Justice from releasing the report, which is blocking a Freedom of Information Act request for the report that the Knight Institute filed with DOJ on January 26, 2025.
On November 3, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that the Institute had established undue delay in the district courts resolution of its motion to intervene. On December 22, 2025, Judge Cannon denied the motion to intervene. The Knight Institute appealed the next day. In February 2026, the Institute filed a second motion to intervene in the district court, arguing that Judge Cannon lacked authority to consider motions filed by President Trump and his co-defendants seeking the permanent suppression of the report. On February 23, Judge Cannon denied the Institutes second intervention motion and permanently enjoined release of the report. The Institute appealed the denial. The Eleventh Circuit has since consolidated the appeals.
Status: Briefing ongoing on appeal.
Case Information: United States v. Trump, 9:23-cr-80101-AMC (S.D. Fla.), United States v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, 25-14507, 26-10674 (11th Cir.).
Eleventh Circuit accelerates review in Trump classified docs fight
Appeals court steps in: The Eleventh Circuit has set a July deadline for briefs in the dispute over releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's classified documents report.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/insight/eleventh-circuit-accelerates-review-in-trump-classified-docs-fight/gm-GM08B51821?gemSnapshotKey=GM08B51821-snapshot-8&uxmode=ruby
dweller
(28,932 posts)Thought it was something about Bolton
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Scrivener7
(60,379 posts)mr715
(4,867 posts)Scrivener7
(60,379 posts)orthoclad
(5,149 posts)Scrivener7
(60,379 posts)orthoclad
(5,149 posts)Thanks
Buckeyeblue
(6,486 posts)You'd think he would have been smarter than that.
Johonny
(26,861 posts)Smarter than Trump, yes. But he was a cheerleader for our forever wars that have done nothing for the American people.
orthoclad
(5,149 posts)Did his few convictions even matter?
He should have been serving a life term for insurrection by the time '24 rolled around. We should have had DC and PR statehood. The Supreme Court could have been expanded. Any one of these things would have saved us, and the planet.
LessAspin
(2,119 posts)The courageous Reality Winner
John Bolton plead guilty to charges about classified documents
Cant help but remember Reality Winner was sent to prison for many years bc she leaked 1 classified document about the Russians interfering in U.S. elections-a fact that was well known to the public