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<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-aileen-cannon-dismisses-trump-v-united-states-case">Judge Aileen Cannon’s dismissal</a> of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-is-an-antisemite-and-republicans-are-totally-cool-with-it">former President Donald Trump</a>’s civil case arising out of the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-latest-mar-a-lago-filing-is-a-game-of-pretend">search warrant executed on his residence in Mar-a-Lago</a> surprised no one—with the possible exception of Trump.</p>
<p>This is because <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-went-judge-shopping-and-it-paid-off-in-mar-a-lago-case">Cannon</a> had no choice, following a scathing decision by the federal court of appeals for the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/politics/mar-a-lago-special-master/index.html">Eleventh Circuit that told Judge Cannon</a> she lacked any authority to have taken the case to begin with—much less to appoint a Special Master.</p>
<p>Trump had been given time to appeal the case further to the full Eleventh Circuit court, as well as to the U.S. Supreme Court, but uncharacteristically did not do so. Whether this was because Trump actually listened to his lawyers—who may have opined that neither the full appeals court nor SCOTUS was likely to take the case—or whether it was due to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/politics/trump-bad-week-analysis/index.html">Trump losing steam after a series of political and legal defeats</a>, the civil case is now completely over.</p>
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This is because Cannon had no choice, following a scathing decision by the federal court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that told Judge Cannon she lacked any authority to have taken the case to begin with—much less to appoint a Special Master.
Trump had been given time to appeal the case further to the full Eleventh Circuit court, as well as to the U.S. Supreme Court, but uncharacteristically did not do so. Whether this was because Trump actually listened to his lawyers—who may have opined that neither the full appeals court nor SCOTUS was likely to take the case—or whether it was due to Trump losing steam after a series of political and legal defeats, the civil case is now completely over.
