Federalist Society member Trump lifetime appointee Aileen “Loose” Cannon ordered Trump’s lawyers and the DOJ to propose jury instructions based on one of Trump’s off-the-wall defenses. Trump insists that the Presidential Records Act, a civil law which was put into effect to thwart people like Nixon from doing illegal things with government documents, is complete protection against the criminal charges against him under the Espionage Act.

It is as incoherent as anything else that Trump says, but it has been embraced by MAGA Judge Cannon. Jury instructions are usually proposed and finalized during the trial. Here, Aileen Cannon hasn’t even set a date for trial, but made the unprecedented request for jury instructions anyway. Check out her beautiful in your fucking face Trumpian reversal of who the fucking idiot is, in ruling on the DOJ’s motion.

The actual  “complex case of first impression” is how many ways a sitting judge appointed by a criminal defendant now sitting in her courtroom can abuse her discretion to protect her benefactor from accountability before she is removed from the case by the full panel of the appellate court.