Abbreviated pundit roundup: When you're a presidential mobster, you appoint judges for later
Harry Litman/LA Times:
The special master order for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents is perverse and potentially disastrous
Nevertheless, some observers are suggesting the bottom line is not so worrisome, and that the best counsel for the Department of Justice is to take its lumps and go through the process Cannon has prescribed.
As a former prosecutor and Justice Department official, I can’t see it. The Cannon order is not only grievously flawed, it threatens inordinate delay and potential scuttling of the entire criminal investigation.