I was surprised that the Daily Beast downplayed the impact of this decison.
but the New York Times is apoplectic
WASHINGTON — A federal judge’s extraordinary decision on Monday to interject in the criminal investigation into former President Donald J. Trump’s hoarding of sensitive government documents at his Florida residence showed unusual solicitude to him, legal specialists said.
This was “an unprecedented intervention by a federal district judge into the middle of an ongoing federal criminal and national security investigation,” said Stephen I. Vladeck, a law professor at University of Texas.
It seems like a lot is riding on the DOJ’s appeal to this ruling. If the decision is upheld, Trump’s team will make sure that the review by the special master takes years. They’ll go back and forth for years just to arrive at a person to appoint as special master. One way or another, Trump will be dead before he sees the inside of a courtroom, much less a prison cell.
Need those numbers as a percentage of population. WV consistently is at or near the top in that measure, for the reasons cited above. Here it is just pointing out that the states with the most people send the most in, but raw numbers aren’t the tale.
I’m just thinking that Franken probably doesn’t have access to the requests, since I doubt they are public. But it’s probably not too far off from the truth, either. He’s gonna suggest some flunky, for sure.
I hear you.
I was just pushing back on the argument upthread that Texas and Florida, if allowed to secede (or however that process ends up kicking those states out of the U.S. ), are not the sole states providing the majority of people who comprise U.S. military troops.
@anon61221983
Lemme dig around for a source on that wishlist.
Yeah, Franken is not an angel. I get that.
I really only wonder because a) how would Franken be privy to the knowledge of who his lawyers requested, and b) it’s an entirely plausible scenario…
If you find other confirmation, let us know, of course…
At least he stepped down when called on his shit instead of doubling down like almost anyone in the GOP would do. He’s got that goin’ for him, at least!
so the daily beast finally got around to writing something alarming.
The only opposition vote favoring Trump in that Supreme Court decision in January came from Justice Clarence Thomas, who remained silent. But he might have something to say on the matter soon enough. If the DOJ appeals this ruling, it could quickly make its way up to the appellate courts, possibly in the form of an emergency request. If it does, legal scholars have noted, the case could end up with the Supreme Court judge assigned to hear extremely time-sensitive matters out of Eleventh Circuit’s three southern states: Thomas.
“People say this was unprecedented,” Barr said in an interview with Fox News. “But it’s also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club, okay?”
), are not the sole states providing the majority of people who comprise U.S. military troops.