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The Trump Mar-a-Lago search was justified

I will agree when we have an indictment. The DOJ allegedly found what they were looking for. If this does not rise to the level of criminality in their minds then this was a publicity stunt. Same result could have been found with a less dramatic move.
Like what?
 
I've got some bad news for you. You're going to learn that information, so you might want to start working on your next goal post right now.
Ummm...

From what I've heard, that judge isn't going to require the affidavit to be fully released. So no, nobody is going to "learn that information".
 
He is. Why on earth would you take your warrant application to a judge who recused himself from another case involving the same person just six weeks prior. That was sloppy. And then resist releasing the justification for that application when it could eliminate all question of judicial bias. That’s even sloppier.
You keep repeating this. Can you give some details as to why you think this is a problem? Are trump's people even trying to make this "argument?"
 
Ummm...

From what I've heard, that judge isn't going to require the affidavit to be fully released. So no, nobody is going to "learn that information".
Yet. When Trump is ultimately charged with his crimes they will. At that point, they'll have all the evidence they need, and they will no longer need to hide the name of the sources.
 
Uh-oh--Fox "News" is finally admitting that the search was justified?

Quick, righties--start calling Fox "liberal media"! :LOL:
That's an opinion piece, not a news piece and not an editorial. FoxNews does present different perspectives, unlike CNN and MSNBC.
 
He is. Why on earth would you take your warrant application to a judge who recused himself from another case involving the same person just six weeks prior. That was sloppy. And then resist releasing the justification for that application when it could eliminate all question of judicial bias. That’s even sloppier.

The DOJ didn't take a warrant application to a Judge.

The case was assigned to the Judge based on rotation.

From the Internal Operating Procedures for the Southern District of Florida (which is the jurisdiction where judge presides.)

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The DOJ didn't take a warrant application to a Judge.

The case was assigned to the Judge based on rotation.

From the Internal Operating Procedures for the Southern District of Florida (which is the jurisdiction where judge presides.)

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And the Judge should have declined it so that it could be reassigned. Failing that, the DOJ should have requested recusal.
 
And the Judge should have declined it so that it could be reassigned. Failing that, the DOJ should have requested recusal.
Do you know the basis for his recusal?
 
The trumpkin rubes are not going to like this:



Ever since news broke two weeks ago that the FBI had executed a search warrant on former President Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago, the political world has been aflame with hyperbole, accusations, innuendo, and hysteria.

Every legal pundit and pundits pretending to know something about the law have emerged to try and explain what is really happening here. And the former president and his allies, as is their custom, have sought to flood the zone with political justifications and haphazard legal explanations to deflect from his conduct.

The truth needs to be set forth plainly and simply, and so let’s get down to brass tacks here. What happened on August 8, 2022, was not tyranny. It was not political persecution. It was not a minor dust up over bureaucratic processes blown out of proportion. It was the criminal justice system operating just like it does with any other private citizen on any other given day ending in a "y."
What this article misses or ignores is that a former President is not in the same situation as the average American, and that there are legitimate concerns about this situation being treated differently by the FBI and DOJ than prior situations involving issues of classified documents. It also ignores the obvious extant motives that could play into a raid on the home of a former President, meaning just having an investigation "running its course" over the mid-term elections has a political effect and therefore, the American people have a strong interest in knowing whether this raid was for political purposes or not. Moreover, the article ignores the history of politically motivated hit jobs against Donald Trump, the Russia hoax, and the FBI team lying to a federal judge to get warrants during the Russia Hoax investigation and also the FBI relying on concocted evidence in order to justify their actions.

Also, this attorney keeps stating facts as if he knows them, which he doesn't, such as that all the documents were "properly designated" classified and that there was no indication Trump had declassified them (or that there even had to be that indication in order for Trump to have them).

It may turn out to be a glaring, serious crime committed by Donald Trump, but it is not fair to the American people or the American voter, and it is not conducive to trust in the FBI and DOJ, for these matters to be kept secret until after the upcoming elections.

No, the word of the FBI is not good enough. And, that's not some insult to the FBI. The FBI made this bed by literally lying on warrant applications relative to the Trump campaign and bugging his offices, and also having agents who had specific discussions of "stopping" Trump, as if it's their job to do stuff like that.

I get it, law enforcement has normal processes and the FBI has almost carte blanche to get warrants based on thin probable cause affidavits, and the people have to sit there and take it, and they do their investigations and they never have to answer to anybody, most of the time, unless and until they file charges, and then in that case they overwhelm Defendants with massive FBI and DOJ prosecutorial resources, overcharge the Defendants, and buy witness testimony regularly through grants of immunity and other means, to pressure defendants to settle to avoid lengthy jail sentences. That is the "normal" route of federal prosecutions. But this isn't a normal case.
 
On 28 U.S.C. § 455 - which he cited to recuse himself from another Trump case just six weeks prior to signing this warrant. If he couldn’t be impartial in that case then why is he signing a warrant involving the same person?

I read his recusal for the Clinton/Trump case. He didn't specify any reason. What would be the reason he was not impartial in this case? And be specific. He was next in line for this case. Fact.
 
Ummm...

From what I've heard, that judge isn't going to require the affidavit to be fully released. So no, nobody is going to "learn that information".
Definitely not. The only information DOJ will suggest be revealed will be that which can be skewed against DJT.

Anonymity needs to stop here. The witnesses against the former President should be revealed, and they can be given proper security.

Frankly, the DOJ saying this raid was "in the early stages of investigation" is nonsense. If this really was the "early stages" then they would not yet have raided the former President's house. If they choose to take unprecedented action at early stages of the investigation, then something is wrong.
 
I read his recusal for the Clinton/Trump case. He didn't specify any reason. What would be the reason he was not impartial in this case? And be specific. He was next in line for this case. Fact.
The reason is there:

“…pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455”

Which is a statute requiring recusal for inability to be impartial. It’s also a fact that this judge could and should have recused himself from this case too.
 
I read his recusal for the Clinton/Trump case. He didn't specify any reason. What would be the reason he was not impartial in this case? And be specific. He was next in line for this case. Fact.
I would think that when the judge made statements that Donald Trump did not have the moral authority to kiss Representative Lewis' feet, that might call his impartiality into question, and arguably that shows a personal bias.
 
The reason is there:

“…pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 455”

Which is a statute requiring recusal for inability to be impartial. It’s also a fact that this judge could and should have recused himself from this case too.

Once again, list the specific reason he would need to recuse himself from this case. I'll wait.
 
OK.......which article of the many cited?
"He publicly tweeted personal criticism about President Trump’s character in 2017 before he became a magistrate judge in 2018. Magistrate Judge Reinhart just recused from a civil lawsuit from President Trump against Hillary Clinton six weeks ago,” said Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project. “How did his bias go away in the last six weeks?”

In one post, the judge said he “generally ignored” Mr. Trump’s tweets, but he responded to the former president’s criticism of the civil rights icon and late Georgia Congressman John Lewis.

“Donald Trump doesn’t have the moral stature to kiss John Lewis’s feet,” Judge Reinhart wrote on his Facebook page, according to Daily Wire. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/aug/12/magistrate-full-authority-search-warrant-trump-mar/
So, the section on personal bias seems to apply. As does the general section about "impartiality reasonably called into question."
 
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