Trying to find the punchline here? Practice arguments are a given more often than not.
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None of you are wrong.
That said, I think TPM has noted (or suspects) their audience (or one of their audiences) has a real interest in everything about the probe, an interest which has grown to be separate and independent of the probeās significance to national politics.
If I had to guess, itās for those folks that this article was written. And, as someone who recently binged every episode of all 20 seasons of Law & Order, take my word for it: there some some folks who enjoy the gory details, even if they are pro forma and unsurprising.
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Thatās why Iām always slow to go GRR GRR this is fluff! If someone finds it interesting, itās worth having in there.
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In my case, itās just the same insider eye-rolling I do whenever I see newspapers refer to a routine Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim as a āMotion to Have the Case THROWN OUT OF COURT!!!ā as if it was a big deal. (Yeah, thatās not how they write it, but thatās how I hear it when I read it.)
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Iām waiting for emptywheel (.net) to go thru the calendar and compare it to her timeline. If thereās anything interesting, sheāll find it.
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After which, I hope, you laid down with a cool towel across your fevered brow.
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Judicial Watch is trying to make this into an issue the right wing media can blow up for a couple of news cycles when in point of fact itās what any halfway competent legal team would do when prepping for any appearance before a judge. JW is counting on the ignorance of their audience to try and make this seem like something nefarious when itās really just good preparation, something they, Sekulow, and Kobach are unfamiliar with.