The MeidasTouch Podcast - Jack Smith MAKES TRUMP PAY for Judge Cannon’s Protection

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s opposition to Donald Trump’s request under the Classified Information Procedure Act (CIPA) where Smith also calls Judge Cannon’s bluff. Get 20% off and free shipping with code MEIDAS at https://manscaped.comVisit https://meidastouch.com for more!Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts:MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcastLegal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-afThe PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcastThe Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassanMea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohenThe Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-showBurn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boatsMajority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdownLights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-densonOn Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellmanUncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered

Duration: 14m
Broadcast on: 21 Dec 2023
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special counsel Jack Smith is making Donald Trump pay for a filing Trump made in the Mar-a-Lago criminal document case a few weeks back where I described what Donald Trump was doing as a massive overreach. And I said back then that special counsel Jack Smith would make Donald Trump pay and make judge Eileen Cannon pay. And Jack Smith is doing that right now in what Jack Smith filed. So Donald Trump was requesting that his lawyers and Donald Trump's co-defendants in the criminal case in the Southern District of Florida regarding the willful retention of national defense information that their lawyers participate in CPA section for Ex Parte in camera hearings where criminal defense lawyers are not allowed to be presented. But because he got Judge Eileen Cannon Donald Trump and Trump's co-defendants, Walter Nouta and Carlos Taylor, rather like heck whatever, we want to be a part of it. So let's have our lawyers be present. That's not a normal thing that does not happen. And they're serious 11th Circuit precedent and serious precedent across the country that says that is just not what happens when it comes to the classified information procedure. Like but Trump asked for it and Judge Eileen Cannon's the type of judge who ignores the law and would help him. And that's why I said this was an overreach because Judge Eileen Cannon has been purposefully making paperless orders, not substantive orders that can actually be appealed. She's been delaying and obstructing things by not reaching decisions. The lesson Judge Eileen Cannon learned when she was previously overturned twice in the case involving the search warrant and executed on Mar-a-Lago where she asserted equitable jurisdiction where she should not have asserted that jurisdiction. She learned the wrong lesson where she had said maybe I shouldn't be ruling so quickly so I don't get overturned so quickly. So now in the Mar-a-Lago document case that she's been unfortunately randomly assigned to, she's now making these rulings that are scheduling in nature that really can't be appealed. But when Donald Trump asked her, hey Judge Eileen Cannon, we want to participate in CPA section four. I said that's an overreach and special counsel Jack Smith's going to swoop in and he's going to say that's not appropriate. And if you do, I'm going to go to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. That's basically what Jack Smith has just done right here. Here it is. The government's consolidated opposition to Trump's motion for access to CPA section for filings and Nouta and De Oliveira's motion related to the ex parte nature of CPA section four. And so basically just what that title means is Jack Smith saying Trump's lawyers, Walter Nouta and Carlos De Oliveira, Trump's co-defendants lawyers, are not entitled to be at CPA section four ex parte in camera hearings. The law is crystal clear. The special counsel Jack Smith says, look, look at the playing text of CPA section four about ex parte in camera hearings. But also take a look at a 2008 11th Circuit Court of Appeals case, Judge Eileen Cannon. Your bosses in the 11th Circuit in a case called United States v. Tampa recognized that these hearings take place ex parte in camera meeting without the criminal defendant or the criminal defendant's lawyer present. Why? Because we're dealing with such highly sensitive national security documents that in a CPA section for hearing, the prosecutors are asking the judge to withhold certain documents and then later to substitute in place of the documents, for example, to substitute in the place of nuclear codes or war plans or things that could really damage the national security of our country, some sort of summary or other description so that the document could go before a jury at the trial. So a criminal defendant's sixth amendment rights can be preserved while balancing the serious national security implications as well, since we don't want criminal defendants to engage in a form of blackmail called gray mail where they go, we need these documents before a public jury. And we will threaten the national security or you can dismiss these charges against us. We want to prevent that sort of blackmailing the prosecution to dismiss cases where things are highly sensitive and a criminal defendant saying these documents need to be public. We have a right to a public jury. So that's why Congress enacted this statute. And here, Jack Smith is saying, look, on December 6, Donald Trump filed this motion seeking his attorney's eyes on the access to the government's filings pursuant to section four of CPA. He also seeks to compel the government to publicly file redacted versions of its CPA section for motions, but neither the statute

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