September 2022
“Turns out, stashing top-secret government documents in the basement of your country club is, to use some technical jargon, super illegal.” —Stephen Colbert
“Given the national security implications of the documents, most legal scholars assumed a federal judge wouldn’t do anything to hinder the investigation by the justice department. But on Monday, federal judge Aileen Cannon granted Trump’s request for an independent ‘special master’ to sort relevant documents from those protected by attorney-client privilege, and barred the justice department from using the seized materials until that work is done. You know the old saying: ‘Justice delayed is just what he wants cuz he just needs time to shred the evidence.’ Cannon’s order also instructs the special master to look out specifically for documents potentially shielded by executive privilege. But he’s not the executive any more! Joe Biden is. So he doesn’t have any privilege here. That’s like saying to a bad cop, ‘All right, you’re fired. Gimme your badge and your gun but you can keep the car because we know you love the siren. And you can keep the gun.’” —Stephen Colbert
“This decision is bonkers. So why is Judge Cannon going so far out on this very, very stupid legal limb? I don’t know, maybe because she was appointed by the former president and confirmed just days after the presidential election in 2020. So she’s a brand-new judge, who was hand-picked by the guy doing the crimes to preside over the jurisdiction that includes the place where he was committing the crimes. That’s like if the head ref of the Super Bowl was Tom Brady’s dad.” —Stephen Colbert
https://idiocracy23.blogspot.com/2021/02/a-magisterial-collection.html
“A magisterial collection. An emotional roller coaster. Soon to be a cult classic.
A combination of Bukowski’s Last Night of the Earth and Orwell’s 1984.”