Ed Morrissey

Is there something to this argument? Maybe, but Cannon's decision to allow amici briefs and oral argument is unusual at the district court level, if not unprecedented. Generally speaking, district courts engage in fact-finding with the parties in the case at hand; amici briefs are more of a feature of appellate review, when the focus is on the law and procedure rather than fact-finding. CNN's legal expert Bradley Moss called it "absurd," and one has to wonder whether the 11th Circuit will intervene again in Cannon's handling of the case.