Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wow. That Circuit ruling was a serious dismissal of Cannon.
But this line in the ruling really sticks out for me: "... we find unpersuasive Plaintiff’s insistence that he would be harmed by a criminal investigation. 'Bearing the discomfiture and cost of a prosecution for crime even by an innocent person is one of the painful obligations of citizenship.'"
Trump could soon be feeling - for the very first time in his life - "the painful obligations of citizenship".
They had to reject Cannon on this. Making that precedent would make it impossible to prosecute anyone with a half decent lawyer. Prosecutors would be tangled up in court the second a person knew they were a target of an investigation, well before any indictment came down.
A big question now is whether Cannon will be chastened, or will keep interviewing for a spot on SCOTUS.