DC Circuit Issues Lightning-Fast Order Requiring Trump Lawyer To Turn Over Docs To Special Counsel - TPM – Talking Points Memo

A federal appeals court took less than a day to bat away an attempt from President Trump to block an attorney of his from participating in Jack Smith’s investigation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1451932
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So much winning.

“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please. It’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore. Mr. President, it’s too much.’”
— Cadet Cockholster mit der Bone Spurs von Queens, April 12, 2016

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Evan Corcoran…Come On Down!!

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But you can’t make up your mind when the facts are all on your side so quickly! You have to be deliberate and slow.

Nice to see that the wheels of justice don’t grind so slowly all the time.

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Trump is our retribution lol

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Well past time to speed up Trump’s demise.

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Teehee.

TFG will want this appealed to the full court. Just watch. Anything to delay, distract, and deny.

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IANAL, but seemingly every decision by every court can be appealed all the way to SCOTUS. Can this decision be appealed to SCOTUS? Are there courts between the DC circuit that ruled on this and SCOTUS that subsequent appeals would have to go through first? Could we still be weeks or months away from the judicial branch forcing Corcoran’s hand?

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He may appeal all the way to SCOTUS, but he won’t win.
And I doubt that he can get another stay to keep Corcoran from testifying.

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I think tRump has a right to ask for a full court decision and yes, he can try to take it to SCOTUS but they can outright refuse to get involved…and they should stay out of it imo.

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BREAKING: Trump attorney Corcoran to testify Friday in Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation after losing appeal.

And some of the relevant material has already been handed over to DoJ before Trump has a chance to appeal.

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They could take weeks or months, possibly all the way to the end of their current session, before declining to get involved, right?

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So a federal judge found prima facie evidence of Trump’s criminality by way of invoking the crime/fraud exception for one of his attorneys. And a federal appeals court upheld that finding in a New York minute, which is a polite judicial way of saying “get that lame-assed shit outta my courtroom.” Not just “no you’re wrong on the law” but “there is enough reason to believe you’ve committed crimes that your claims of attorney-client privilege are void.”

That’s gotta hurt. I’m feeling optimistic.

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They probably could but I don’t think they would if only because public opinion of them is at what? 17%? and would go down even lower? Do they care? Who the fuck knows anymore? I don’t. We’re a very sick country right now.

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Sounds to me like a court that is well and truly tired of getting jerked around by a round jerk.

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I would be curious to see what that reply brief, written between Midnight and 6AM was like.

And how many coffee stains it has on it.

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