Indeed this has been the nightmare scenario put forth by former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner on (my show) Law and Chaos and by Lawfare’s Roger Parloff: Judge Cannon will do something outrageous to throw the case, but she’ll do it after jeopardy has attached, when it’s too late for the government to do anything about it.
If Loose had been "quite smart", really, not "weirdly", "clever," she never would have pounded out that preposterous Order on her laptop in her kitchen when she had been drinking. If you're "quite smart" (and quite corrupt), you don't leave a paper trail of stupid.
