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The law seems to require Aileen Cannon to fuck off

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found that Judge for life Aileen Cannon had no jurisdiction to interfere on behalf of Donald Trump in Trump v. United States. Trump v. USA was the legally incoherent lawsuit Trump brought to stop the Department of Justice from conducting their criminal investigation of his illegal retention of presidential records and his obstruction of the investigation. Trump has since been indicted for those crimes. Cannon is the judge assigned to make all rulings in the case the United States v. Donald Trump, in which her benefactor stands accused of unlawful retention of government documents and obstruction of justice..

The unanimous Eleventh Circuit panel ruling overturned all of Cannon’s baseless partisan decisions in Trump v. U.S. They reprimanded her for abusing her discretion, first in not dismissing the case, and then by making findings with no basis in law (and with no jurisdiction to rule on any of it in the first place) and ordered her to dismiss the case she should never have stuck her loyal partisan nose into.

If that does not amount to reasonable questions about her ability to judge the case impartially, the case she already made rulings to delay and suppress evidence in, nothing does.

As to her legal credentials for serving as judge in this historic case, well… Being nominated for that lifetime appointment used to include relevant experience and a proven track record, outside of fidelity to Federalist Society doctrine. Aileen Cannon has had virtually no relevant legal experience and no track record to speak of. The perfect candidate for Trumpie!

Diane Feinstein, at a very diminished 89

The New York Times headline:

Feinstein, Back in the Senate, Relies Heavily on Staff to Function

The California Democrat is surrounded by a large retinue of aides at all times, who tell her how and when to vote, explain what is going on when she is confused, and shield her from the press and public.

Mmm, not quite ideal in a closely divided Senate, if you hear what I’m sayin’.

The Grey Lady continues:

All senators rely heavily on staff. But for years, Ms. Feinstein’s memory problems have meant that she has needed far more support than other senators. Briefing her on the news of the day requires longer sessions and more background information.

At times she has expressed confusion about the basics of how the Senate functions. When Vice President Kamala Harris was presiding over the chamber last year in one of many instances in which she was called upon to cast a tiebreaking vote, Ms. Feinstein expressed confusion, according to a person who witnessed the scene, asking her colleagues, “What is she doing here?” Staff members have been overheard explaining to her that she cannot leave yet because there are more votes to come. . .

. . . For now, her aides have been left to figure out how to make Ms. Feinstein’s office work as well as it can in the absence of a fully functional senator. They have done so, some of them said, by relying on the senator’s three decades’ worth of policy positions and explicit systems she put in place long ago that were designed to make her office efficient — and which earned her a reputation for running one of the more demanding work places on Capitol Hill.

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