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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : But this is also what Trump has long wanted to see: a judiciary with pockets of loyalists to whom he and his allies could appeal.
52% : The hope going into Jan. 6, 2021, was that a challenge to the electoral vote would be upheld by the one-third of Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump.
44% : That she also got the case again once Smith obtained an indictment was a matter of chance -- a particularly lucky one for Trump.
42% : A number of boxes were returned to the National Archive, reportedly sorted by Trump himself.
42% : A subpoena demanding the return of any other documents marked as classified led to a handover in June 2022 -- and an attorney for Trump signing a document attesting that no other such documents remained at his home.
38% : The immunity decision most clearly articulated the court's willingness to empower Trump, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (who wrote the decision) bolstering the right's argument that the novelty in the moment was Trump's being charged, not his doing things that warranted indictment.
31% : Before that, Trump rejected multiple opportunities to return the material as the government had demanded.
30% : Trump argued that he did so because they'd all been declassified (through some unidentified and undocumented process) and/or that he'd determined that they were personal, not presidential records (a determination he didn't have power to make).
29% : Cannon is a Trump appointee, joining the District Court for the Southern District of Florida the same month Trump lost his reelection bid in 2020.
29% : What's most revealing about the Cannon decision, though, is not that Trump will not face trial before the election.
25% : Of the various charges Trump faced, this one was often identified as the most dangerous for the former president.
18% : The indictment of Trump and his aide Waltine Nauta obtained by special counsel Jack Smith included charges related both to his retention of those documents and alleged efforts to prevent the government from learning about them.

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