Sep. 7, 2022: Legal world fires at Judge Cannon
Legal pundits have had another day to digest Monday\u2019s confounding opinion from Judge Aileen Cannon.\nRecall that the 41-year-old Trump appointee (who was confirmed in the days after the 2020 election) granted the former president\u2019s request to appoint a special master to review the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago, and enjoined the Department of Justice \u201cfrom reviewing and using the seized materials for investigative purposes.\u201d She ordered the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to continue its damage assessment review of the documents.\xa0\xa0\nLawyers are, by definition, a quarrelsome bunch, and members of the pundit bar are especially quick to second-guess any opinions that aren\u2019t theirs. But they are also as ideologically divided as the rest of the country. So it\u2019s notable that while Cannon has had little trouble finding political support for her decision, she has been largely alone when it comes to support for her legal arguments.\nAnd Senate Republicans tried to tamp down the burgeoning feud between Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and NRSC Chair Rick Scott (Fla.) over campaign strategy at a Tuesday meeting, Burgess Everett and Marianne LeVine report. \u201cRepublican senators said after the meeting that there was little talk inside McConnell\u2019s leadership suite of a split between Scott and the GOP leader. Still, the divide hung over the Senate\u2019s return like Washington\u2019s steamy early September weather.\u201d\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.