Thinking the same thing. I’m no Nyew York City! lawyer, but In NC it would be an interlocutory appeal, but we have a slippery exception called the “substantial right” doctrine. Even an improper appeal, however, will tie things up for months.
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Of course. Anyone with a heart would give those dead kids back to their parents, and lift the nightmare from the rest. But if there’s anything I’ve noticed among people who’ve suffered that way, they want to spare other people the same pain. It’s one of the few things that can bring them any comfort or replace the insanity of it with some kind of meaning. So in the ranking of what you’d want, there’s that it never happened, and then there’s nothing for a long, long way down, and then the second-best is that people want to do something about it and finally, finally get some traction in their efforts.
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Unless they are GOP who got shot playing softball. Then they want more guns.
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The TPM law firm within the peanut gallery here would defeat PORKUS’ team any day of the week!!
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You have to give some grudging credit to a guy you can’t even shoot the stupid out of.
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New York Supreme Court Judge Jennifer G. Schecter ruled last month that Zervos’ lawsuit against the President can proceed. Trump had sought the case’s dismissal, arguing that a sitting President cannot face lawsuits in state court. Schecter disagreed with the argument from Trump’s lawyer, and allowed Zervos’ case to proceed.
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Oh, surely you can give them more credit than that. 
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Interesting to me that interlocutory appeals are frowned on in other jurisdictions. We allow them here:
Sec. 51.014. APPEAL FROM INTERLOCUTORY ORDER. (a) A person may appeal from an interlocutory order of a district court, county court at law, statutory probate court, or county court that:(1) appoints a receiver or trustee;(2) overrules a motion to vacate an order that appoints a receiver or trustee;(3) certifies or refuses to certify a class in a suit brought under Rule 42 of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure;(4) grants or refuses a temporary injunction or grants or overrules a motion to dissolve a temporary injunction as provided by Chapter 65;(5) denies a motion for summary judgment that is based on an assertion of immunity by an individual who is an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state;(6) denies a motion for summary judgment that is based in whole or in part upon a claim against or defense by a member of the electronic or print media, acting in such capacity, or a person whose communication appears in or is published by the electronic or print media, arising under the free speech or free press clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, or Article I, Section 8, of the Texas Constitution, or Chapter 73;(7) grants or denies the special appearance of a defendant under Rule 120a, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, except in a suit brought under the Family Code;(8) grants or denies a plea to the jurisdiction by a governmental unit as that term is defined in Section 101.001;(9) denies all or part of the relief sought by a motion under Section 74.351(b), except that an appeal may not be taken from an order granting an extension under Section 74.351;(10) grants relief sought by a motion under Section 74.351(l);(11) denies a motion to dismiss filed under Section 90.007;(12) denies a motion to dismiss filed under Section 27.003; or(13) denies a motion for summary judgment filed by an electric utility regarding liability in a suit subject to Section 75.0022.(b) An interlocutory appeal under Subsection (a), other than an appeal under Subsection (a)(4) or in a suit brought under the Family Code, stays the commencement of a trial in the trial court pending resolution of the appeal. An interlocutory appeal under Subsection (a)(3), (5), (8), or (12) also stays all other proceedings in the trial court pending resolution of that appeal.
Hope that isn’t TMI
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The right is there. But in practice, there is a snowball’s chance of prevailing.
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Ah, I see - I should have read more closely what y’all were saying. They get granted here or used to, depending on which judge you were in front of. We had a steady stream of interim appeals of writs and other interlocutory judgments in civil cases at the Court of Appeals.
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Almost every one of Trump’s lawsuits (DACA, immigration) as well as the lawsuits brought against him - have ruled NOT in his favor. I get the sneaking suspicion that these judges … just can’t stand the guy. Especially the female judges. SAD.
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Well don’t sell judges short - they are not supposed to make decisions based on whether or not they like the plaintiff or defendant.
His lawsuits are based on crap and that’s why he keeps losing.
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Not to mention offering a picture-perfect model of how Congressional Democrats should be behaving, for crying out loud.
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I’m well aware of that … but I just can’t help but think that they can’t help themselves just a teeny, tiny bit in this case…
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Who knows how much sub and unconscious goes into their conscious thinking - I don’t. The ones I used to work with didn’t ever make it personal on the surface anyway.
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yet will change no minds on the anti- or pro- 45* sides.
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We’ve got a very long haul before we substantially de-tribalize our political discourse. Whole lot of point-source and non-point-source pollution there.
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So maybe Trump isn’t such a bad businessman after all. He has to be turning some kind of amazing profit to keep up with all the non-disclosure payments - unless of course he can get his lawyer to pay up on his behalf…
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Scorched earth delay is Trump’s only practical defense with his fixer sitting on the sideline now. He will be hoping the other side gets frustrated and fumbles.