Aileen Cannon
ABC News is getting in the Halloween spirit with a list of lawyers serving in a potential Trump administration.
Attorney General Aileen Cannon?
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Trump rewarding the judge who blew up his documents case on the theory that special counsels are unlegal with the top law enforcement position in his administration is probably a troll — it seems unlikely that she could get confirmed, for one thing. But if Trump loses the election and the 11th Circuit revives the case, the rumor might find its way into a motion for recusal.
Liberals might actually prefer an AG Cannon to some of the other ghouls on the list, though. Jeff “Oil Spill” Clark’s name has been bandied about, despite the fact that he will likely be banned from practicing law for a couple years thanks to his efforts to overturn the last election.
Other potential AGs include venomous troll Mike Davis, a regular on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, who promises to use the power of the federal government to rain vengeance down upon Trump’s enemies, and Mark Paoletta, currently flouncing around spitting “How dare you question sainted Justice Clarence Thomas’s ethics? Have you no shame, sir!” Or words to that effect. Paoletta already proved his loyalty in the first Trump administration as general counsel for the Office of Management and Budget, where he greenlit withholding defense funds for Ukraine allocated by congress until the country’s president promised to “do us a favor, though” and announce sham investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
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Truly the least terrifying choice on this list is Jay Clayton, the former head of the SEC under Trump. Clayton would be a preposterous shill for big business and an antitrust nightmare, and he appears to have been complicit in Bill Barr’s efforts to ratfuck the Southern District of New York to stop it from investigating Giuliani and other Trumpworld henchmen. But he doesn’t look like someone who would slip razor blades into Halloween candy to teach kids a lesson about the evils of socialist handouts.
Lower down in the demon hierarchy, ABC suggests that attorney Stan Woodward might serve as White House Counsel. Woodward represents various midlevel MAGA dipshits, including Peter Navarro and Kash Patel, as well as multiple January 6 defendants. Most notably, Woodward represented Walt Nauta, Trump’s codefendant in the documents case. Previously, he’d represented Mar-a-Lago’s IT head Yuscil Taveras, who recanted his prior testimony and implicated Nauta and Trump about five seconds after Chief Judge James Boasberg appointed him a different lawyer in response to the appearance of bias. Judge Cannon saw no such conflict, and allowed him to stay on the case — so they’ll already have a good working relationship when they get to the White House in January!
TRICK OR TREAT!
Judge who tossed Trump’s classified docs case on list of proposed candidates for attorney general [ABC News]
Liz Dye lives in Baltimore where she produces the Law and Chaos substack and podcast.