Picking Paul Huck Jr., If Cannon Does, For Special Master Is A Freaking Joke

[gab13by13]

Donald Trump nominated the "Godfather of the Federalist Society in Miami" to be the special master of the documents the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago.

https://www.rawstory.com/paul-huck-jr/

[Hugin]

1. Catch me up here...

I thought the DoJ was supposed to put forward a list of potential special masters.

[Maeve]

2. Both sides put forward names

Check this thread in LBN
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142967238

[dem4decades]

3. your title is confusing. It implies he has been picked already.

[gab13by13]

4. Do you think that Cannon is going to pick one of the DOJ choices?

I could be wrong, Cannon may pick the other Trump choice. My record for predictions has been pretty accurate.

The mere nomination of Huck is outrageous. Shouldn't the picks have top secret security clearance? If Cannon picks Huck, that means that she should drop her executive privilege investigation.

Isn't delaying everything the only goal of Trump? Pushing everything to his fascist judges at the SC?

[Bettie]

8. If she picks him

he gets to see all the classified and top secret info. Then, he can sell it to the highest bidder.

Yes, I do think they are that dishonest and criminal. This is who they are, the whole lot of them.

[Eyeball_Kid]

5. The DOJ still has a few options.

IMO, one of them is to chuck all of the tomfoolery and appeal directly to the 11th Circuit.

The other is to move the venue to DC, as is required by the Presidential Records Act. The DOJ, as stated by Katyal, can simply bypass Cannon and move on.

[onenote]

7. Too late to move venue

Venue can't be challenged on appeal. DOJ has had several opportunities to object to the case being considered in Florida and has not once raised them.

Katyal originally suggested appealing to the 11th circuit would be "dicey" and DOJ should try to move the case (without explaining how that could be done at this stage). Then, when DOJ indicated it was going to appeal and asked for a stay (without making any argument about venue), Katyal praised the DOJ argument as brilliant.

[BSdetect]

6. The whole charade is ridiculous