How long will it takes for an appeals court judge to decide if theyâll take this case?
The judge said that Trump and his family âare unlikely to succeed on merits of their claims.â
How can they so shamelessly bring up the âfamilyâ claim when most of the family members mess with politics?
The sunlight eventually shining on his criminality is going to burn.
Iâm with Justin:
IMPEACH
Third Grader: Mommy, help me study for my spelling test!
Mom: Whatâs the magic word?
TG: Oh yeah. Mommy, please?
Mom: Please what?
TG: Help me study for my spelling test, please! (sigh)
Mom: Okay. (Looks list over.) Letâs start with an easy one. Spell shameless.
TG: T-R-U-M-P
So Ramos is afraid of Trump.
Me thinks he got a call from Bob Mueller and told him he better back off or heâll sick Bill Barr on him.
It isnât surprising that someone finally agreed to pause the subpoenas. In a way, it seems reasonable so that they canât argue that they have been mistreated in the process (although they still will). They canât be happy with his observation that they are unlikely to succeed on the merits" of the claim, however. Thatâs going to leave a mark.
In subpoena enforcement cases (I handled a number of these for the government) the Court of Appeals will ordinarily expedite the appeal. I expect that the cases (DC and NY) will be fully briefed by August and argued in either a special August session or at the start of the ordinary September session, with decisions rendered within a month.
Then it gets interesting. If Trump loses (likely) he will ask to Supreme Court for a stay pending his application for certiorari. One possibility is that the Court turns the petition down promptly, in which case production would occur in the fall.
But if the Court takes the cases for review (again, I think this likely) it will be argued in January at the earliest (more likely in February or March) and the decision will probably come at the end of the term in late June 2020. So production will occur just as the Presidential campaign goes into high gear.
This could become the all-time political circus if the information provided contains proverbial smoking guns which the Democrats believe they must make public.
Really? Thatâs five kinds of weird.
Courts can act pretty quickly when they want to or when thereâs external pressure â both of which would I think apply in this case. (Think days or weeks, not months.) You need time to brief, but the issues here are pretty straightforward. It would, to me, I think say more about the court if it didnât act quickly in this case.
ETA: I spaced, thinking SCOTUS not appeals court. Itâs not a discretionary appeal, i.e. the court has to take the appeal. Given that, think in terms of maybe a month or two to a hearing on the short side.
Do bone spurs ever go away? Can Trump prove he had them?
I want to see the X-rays.
If they were real, were they removed?
If not, they should still be there to prove.
If they WERE removed, I want to see the paperwork.
âToday, as you probably donât know, âcause the lyinâ mediaâŚtheyâre liars, right? The lyinâ media wonât tell you, that we won a GREAT LEGAL VICTORY. The judgeâŚan Obama judge from Poo-air-toe RicoâŚand we love Poo-air-toe RicoâŚand they should love me after I gave them 91 billion dollarsâŚsays weâre TOTALLY VINDICATEDâŚNO OBSTRUCTION, NO COLLUSION! But even he knows I DID NOTHING WRONG! Of course now he wonât get invited to all the fancy Dem dinners with Cryinâ Chuck and Unstable NancyâŚsheâs changed, donât you think? But thatâs OK, right? But theyâre not going to tell you that at the lyinâ looser New York Times.â
âAhhh, Mr. President, this is only a temporary stay while we prepare an appeal.â
âGet me Barr on the phone right now. What the fuck did I hire him for? Donât those guys work for him and doesnât he work for me? This ends now or just wait and see what happens!â
Exactly. So why put it off?
No reason for the House to agree to this. More slow-walking.
And Nancy Delay still hasnât scheduled a vote on the Billy Barr Contempt Motion passed by the House Judiciary Committee three weeks ago!
And letâs not forget that the Mueller report was issued on March 23d.
No report.
No tax returns.
No financial records.
Just slow-walking.
IKR? Sheez.
âSighâ. Another âmother may Iâ approach from the Dems instead of taking ownership of the process. Hold folks in contempt. Send some big names to jail and youâll get everything you want. Play in the political arena, not just the legal one.
If this is the correct timeline, why is everyone in the media calling it the âRun Out The Clockâ Strategy? Sounds like really bad timing for Trump if everything is released in the thick of the presidential campaign. Right? Or am I missing something here?
Itâs not just that the family messes with politics, itâs that doing transactions in the name of the kids is a standard dodge for tax avoidance and tax evasion, as well as for money laundering. Remember how Mitt Romney undervalued a âgiftâ he gave his sons by a few tens of millions of dollars to avoid taxes. Or how in the previous generation Fred Trump ran a bunch of transactions with questionable values through his offspring to avoid taxesâŚ
To Democratic leadership, whatâs far more horrifying and disturbing than brazen lawlessness by Trump is Democrats appearing partisan.