When Roberts, et Al stop finding novel reasons to remand to the lower courts.
Is it constitutional for Congress to pass a law requiring any presidential nominee to release his tax returns? Or is that adding some sort of additional criteria to the office of the president that is not outlined in the constitution? I think that almost anyone would approve of this if it could be passed.
Poor Donald. I’m struggling to hold back huge, moist snorts of sorrow for him.
Only 11?
So now where do we go? Will Putin be able to block the access to trump’s tax returns as he was the main investor?
Merrero’s opinion is 113 pages long… WAY longer than it needed to be. While I haven’t read the entire thing yet, I can say that he didn’t just go “the extra mile” here, he went the extra 100 milies to preclude any serious grounds for an appeal of his decision. Trump’s lawyers aren’t just repudiated, they are shredded.
question for lawyers… he dismissed the case “with prejudice” and ordered the clerk to “terminate any pending motions and close this case”. Is this normal language?
He over estimated the intelligence of the American voters. He never thought he would win.
you probably couldn’t make it a condition of being a nominee. But you might be able to make it a condition of being eligible for a primary in a state that receives federal funding, or some other kind of sneaky workaround.
Imagine the West Wing right now. “Send out Kellyanne. She can spin anything. The Boss is Tweeting something to change the subject.”
Probably not. States run the elections, so it may depend on the state, but California tried it and got unanimously rejected by the state supreme court (which is made up mostly of Jerry Brown appointees, so not Alito acolytes).
I was gonna say…I think the article misunderestimates the number of ditches Trump’s lawyers are willing to dig…
Still morning!
I’m sure I’m in a minority out here, but I think fighting over the subpoena is pretty much as good as actually getting the returns–at least between now and Election Day. Trump will now ask the judge to stay his order, pending appeal. If the judge will not do that, Trump goes to the Second Circuit for a stay–another news story. If the Second Circuit denies a stay, Trump goes to the Supremes–and if they deny a stay, BIG story.
On the other hand, if Trump does turn over the returns, they won’t be made public, and prosecutors will probably spend months going over them before taking any action.
No way that any of that gets done by Election Day. If Trump just refuses to respond to discovery, the plaintiff will have to make a motion to compel production. That will take time to argue over. If the judge orders production before November 3rd, Trump will file a baseless appeal.
As for the DNA sample, no way it will happen before Election Day, unless the plaintiff should maybe get a sample of Trump’s hair. (Which will turn out to belong to a gnu.)
Just another item in a long list that can be used to beat Trumpkins over the head with.
And the way his rage and victimization and whining carry over to his convention next week will be most entertaining (as long as he doesn’t start a war or otherwise hurt any innocent people).
And the third “r” in Marrero is pronounced as an Alveolar Flap like in “Better” not as a Trill like the first two.
How did you get to be sooo cynical?
Will Trump get so mad he tweet-fires Barr?