MSNBC
Lawrence O’Donnell said Tuesday that Judge Aileen Cannon’s order granting Donald Trump’s request regarding documents seized from Mar-a-Lago is an unofficial application for the next Supreme Court vacancy under a Republican president.
Cannon on Monday agreed with the argument made by Trump’s lawyers that a special master should be appointed to sift through the documents, looking for those protected by attorney-client privilege — even though the Justice Department said late last month that it has already done so.
“Well thanks to Donald Trump and the Republican Party adopting Trumpian methods, we now, tonight, know the name of the next Republican nominee for the United States Supreme Court,” O’Donnell said during the opening of his 10 P.M. show. Cannon, he said, “publicly applied for the job of Supreme Court justice, in writing, yesterday, in a 24-page opinion.”