And

 

we wonder why people dont have faith in our institutions anymore?

US court strikes down appointment of special master to review Trump records

"Decision marks decisive defeat as judges opine the request should never have been granted in the first place."

"The decision by the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit marked a decisive defeat for Trump in a ruling that said a lower-court judge should never have granted his request for an independent arbiter in the first place and is unlikely to be overturned in the event of appeal."

“The law is clear,” the appeals court wrote in an unanimous 23-page opinion. “We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”

(So if the law is so clear as to lead to a unanimous 23 page decision? One might ask, "Why did it ever come to this in the first place?")

"Trump sought the appointment of a special master to examine the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago – including 103 bearing classified markings – shortly after the FBI searched the resort on the basis that some of the materials could be subject to potential privilege protections."

"The requests were granted by US judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, who gave exceptional deference to Trump on account of his status as a former president and decided he satisfied elements of the four-part Richey test used to determine whether to intervene in a criminal investigation.

(Yeah, I'm sure that's all there was behind it, her "exceptional deference to Trump on account of his status as a former president")

"But the 11th circuit ruled that Cannon should never have appointed a special master, writing that she did not have the authority to prevent the department from using the seized materials – a move that is also without legal precedent.'

Seems like more and more we have a judiciary including the Supreme Court that likes to make decisions, without legal precedent."

(They might as well be unelected politicians themselves at this point instead of arbitrators of the law.)

Queue the Prince song somebody: