Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, an exasperated former SDNY Criminal Division Deputy Chief Kristy Greenberg ripped into U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon for holding a hearing on Friday to hear arguments about dismissing special counsel Jack Smith.
Speaking with the hosts of "The Weekend," Greenberg compared the hearing to a useless office meeting where participants eventually complain: "Why are we here?"
With "Weekend" co-host Alicia Menedez prompting her by asking, "Kristy you described the meeting as a meeting that could've been and email," the former prosecutor turned MSNBC legal analyst made the meeting comparison and then added, "This could have easily been resolved with an order. The question is basic: did Merrick Garland have the authority to appoint a special counsel? The answer is clearly, yes."
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"The statutory authority gives them the right to do so , the Supreme Court has said so," she stated before elaborating. "It's a deeply rooted tradition to have these outside counsel come in and conduct an investigation. Who said that? [Supreme Court justice] Brett Kavanagh."
"So even a baby judge who is new to this, knows they've got to follow the Supreme Court," she continued. "I come back to like what is actually going on here; we've had about a year of Judge Cannon and seeing what she's up to and it seems like she has a playbook. The first is distract, take these very simple legal issues and make them seem really complicated, so we are not talking about Donald Trump willfully retaining classified documents, Step two is to use these complications, use the supposed complications to delay."
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