Per Lawrence Tribe, there is little to no chance the District Court Judge’s decision will be overturned on appeal and so it is doubtful the DC Circuit will issue an injunction. By Friday the Archives data issue wiil be moot.
The next question is when will AG Garland indict Bannon. He has a Judicial Branch decision to stand on, so it could happen this week. I have my fingers crossed.
If Jan 6 was an attempt to prevent the lawful transfer of executive power, this whole plea by that former guy is to prevent the lawful transfer of executive privilege.
“Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” Chutkan wrote.
That’s beautiful and I’m glad it’s in the decision, whatever else happens.
My favorite part of the 39 page ruling…
“Presidents are not kings,” she wrote, and Plaintiff is not President."
… And I really wish he would. It would be about time, and it would send a signal that the Congress and new President aren’t messing around. By letting that former (LOSER!) guy exhaust all legal remedies imaginable, appeal by tedious appeal, they risk getting new and BAD precedents set by hack Federalist judges appointed by you-know-who. And it delays the Committee’s investigation.
Trump already signaled his intention to appeal Chutkan’s ruling in a filing this week, asking to be allowed to do so before she came to a decision on the matter.
Premature interjection. I believe Stormy Daniels warned us about this.
I have never been denied pro hac vice status anywhere except W.D. Tex, where I was subsequently admitted straight-up. You wanna shoot the shit in person, I’ll be happy to start the clock. 
Criminals should be allowed to cover up their crimes as they please. Criming, couping and insurrectioning are not fun when there are consequences.
Joe is playing it straight, as he should unless and until the courts say (within the next couple months) that he can’t. At which point, there is no impediment to releasing any document held by the White House.
“This unprecedented attempt to prevent the lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next caused property damage, injuries, and death, and for the first time since the election of 1860, the transfer of executive power was distinctly not peaceful,” the ruling reads.
This sounds bad. Really bad. Almost like they fomented an insurrection or something.
More seriously, federal judges aren’t fooling around. Whether it’s castigating prosecutors for not seeking higher levels of punishment for 1/6 insurrectionists or statements like this, they recognize the gravity of what unfolded on that day of infamy.
Laurence Tribe, bless his heart, always predicts court procedings as they should work, not as they do. If a three judge panel evaluates the appeal request for injuction, and that three judge panel includes Rao and another conservative judge who is vulnerable to being buffaloed by Rao, then the stay will be issued. I say this because that is exactly what happened with one of the congressional subpoenae of TFG’s tax returns 2(?) years ago.
I swear that during the closing statement of the 2nd impeachment trial, just before Jerry Nadler pre-empted him, Adam Schiff was going to say “America has no king. America needs no king.”
Why the incendiary headline? Do we really have to use phrases like “judge shoots down” to describe what has transpired? Please do better. I expect to see phrases like that used by other news outlets, not TPM.
Perhaps Trump has outlived his usefulness to these Federalist Soc. jurists. There does seem to be a slow-motion jettisoning of TFG going on. One can only hope.
The court holds that the public interest lies in permitting—not enjoining— the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events…
I’m interested. And I vote.
The imperial presidency never gets old to them, when it’s one of their imperialists.
One does not simply walk into Mor-a-lago.
Well, the headline might have said “eviscerates Trump’s attempt…” I count my blessings.
Hmm. The King in exile, eh?