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“It is also true, of course, that evenhanded procedure does not demand unquestioning trust in the determinations of the Department of Justice.”
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Ol' Judge Aileen Cannon, she does have a bit of an edge to the written tongue there. (Yeah, I love it.) The above comes from her order declining the DOJ's machinations to only have a Special Master review a few of the documents in question, which in a certain way tells them to pound sand. They had wanted to cherry pick some documents to be reviewed because, well, reasons, but "we've got this little criminal investigation we've got to hurry up with & all."
Judge Cannon appointed Trump team pick Judge Richard Dearie to be the Special Master, and further directed that he would be reviewing ALL materials seized by the FBI. Suspense date for his initial review of the small number is 30 Nov 2022.
Note: Judge Dearie may not be known to many but he was a FISC judge and, ahem, he was one of the original judges to sign off on the warrant that allowed Carter Page (and anyone within 2 hops of him) to be wiretapped based on NOW KNOWN lies by the FBI to get the warrant. I don't know if judges carry a grudge about being lied to on such a scale and being made a fool of all the way through IG investigations and the Mueller facade. I'm sure he's forgotten the whole thing.
PDF of Full Ruling here.
Additional reading at
Conservative Treehouse here.