for every federal district court nominee in the senate judiciary committee in the confirmation hearing, and that, is will you recuse yourself from a criminal trial of the president who appointed you? and if i were like those nominees and i certainly don t expect to be one anytime soon, hypotheticals but the second response is, i ll be guided by the skylines that apply to all judges, set forth by i believe justice roberts to come all the way down to the district court judges. i have heard a lot of this concern about judge alien cannon being there. we talked a lot about this on your program, way back when, when she was issuing her rulings about her special master and we all had our
now have one new question. for every federal district court nominee in the senate judiciary committee in the confirmation hearing, and that, is will you recuse yourself from a criminal trial of the president who appointed you? and if i were like those nominees and i certainly don t expect to be one anytime soon, hypotheticals but the second response is, i ll be guided by the skylines that apply to all judges, set forth by i believe justice roberts to come all the way down to the district court judges. i have heard a lot of this concern about judge alien cannon being there. we talked a lot about this on your program, way back when, when she was issuing her rulings about her special master and we all had our analysis of that, which was indicated by the 11th circuit. but one thing neil mentioned, and i think andrew did as well a little bit, now this is not
stephanie ruhle. we began this evening with a big defeat for the former president and the big win for the rule of law. the 11th circuit court of appeals has ruled in favor of the justice department shutting down the special master s review of specialized documents seen from mar-a-lago back in august. two of the three judges to issue that ruling were appointed by donald trump themselves. they decided that alien cannon, also trump appointed, it was wrong to allow an expert to decide if evidence could be shielded from investigators. this is just the latest legal blow for the former president. the supreme court rejected his early bid to intervene in the documents case, and more recently the justices declined to stop house democrats from getting his taxes. in another rule of law victory today, ruby red coaches county arizona has been forced to certify its election results after republicans there have refused to do so. today was also the day that republicans on the house
formerly known as kanye west, well reports of bigoted violence arise across the country. and the journalist awarded the nobel peace prize for standing up to a dictator in fighting fascism with faxes here. what we can learn from as the 11th hour gets underway on a thursday night. good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle. we began this evening with a big defeat for the former president and the big win for the rule of law. the 11th circuit court of appeals has ruled in favor of the justice department shutting down the special master s review of specialized documents seen from mar-a-lago back in august. two of the three judges to issue that ruling were appointed by donald trump themselves. they decided that alien cannon, also trump appointed, it was
of these records now, based on this point. it doesn t mean we are any more closer to the department of justice saying oh great now we can charge him but it s a bad fact that helped build the case about what donald trump knew and when he knew it. we are closer to the special master in the mar-a-lago case getting fed up with. glam today he did a throwback to the 80s saying to trump s lawyers, where is the beef? he was not talking about hamburger or wendy s so what s really going after. ? we you know, judge dearie seems to be unwilling to take the approach that judge alien cannon took when she just seemed to accept anything trump s lawyers said and act accordingly, whereas judge dearie, when he is looking at a list of the documents the donald trump s lawyers are claiming have some privilege associated with them, and he says to them, this is