Cuz she doesn’t want to be removed:

Judge #AileenCannon is skeptical that #evidence from #MarALago should be thrown out – she was not receptive to the defense’s complaints about the 2022 search of #Trump’s home.

Her skepticism toward defense was unusual, as a Trump appointee who has issued many favorable rulings toward Trump & has often clashed w/special counsel #JackSmith’s team…

#criminal #law #ClassifiedDocuments #obstruction #EspionageAct
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/25/aileen-cannon-trump-evidence-classified-documents-00164944

#JulianAssange may be on his way to freedom but this is not a clear victory for #FreedomOfThe Press

The #EspionageAct will still hang over the heads of journalists reporting on #NationalSecurity issues, not just in the #US
https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-may-be-on-his-way-to-freedom-but-this-is-not-a-clear-victory-for-freedom-of-the-press

#Assange. Why it is not a happy end: "The charges Assange is anticipated to plead guilty to as part of a US deal, and for which he will be sentenced to time served, are drawn from the 1917 Espionage Act, for “conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information related to the national defense of the United States”."

"So the #EspionageAct will still hang over the heads of journalists reporting on national security issues, not just in the US" https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-may-be-on-his-way-to-freedom-but-this-is-not-a-clear-victory-for-freedom-of-the-press

Today in Labor History June 15, 1917: President Woodrow Wilson signed the Espionage Act into law. The law targeted leftist, anti-war and labor organizations, especially the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), which was virtually destroyed because of the arrests and deportations of its members. When Eugene Debs spoke against the draft in Canton, Ohio, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He ran for president from prison in 1920, winning nearly 1 million votes (3.4%). The government used the law to arrest anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman and depart them to the Soviet Union. They used the law against the Rosenbergs, whom they executed. They also used it against Daniel Ellsberg, whose “Pentagon Papers” were published by the NY Times 51 years ago. The Espionage Act is still on the books and was used recently to prosecute Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.

The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer

In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.

https://www.wired.com/story/fengyun-shi-espionage-act-drone-photography/

The classified documents case “was and will always have been the cleanest, most straightforward criminal prosecution of the four against the former president,” ... “That the public won’t see it brought to fruition before they go to the voting booth is a stain on the judicial system.” #natsec #Trump #EspionageAct https://www.salon.com/2024/05/22/stain-on-the-judicial-system-legal-experts-slam-cannon-after-damning-ruling-released/