New York Judge Issues A Gag Order After Trump Launches Wild And False Attacks On His Court Clerk

You are pontificating on a subject about which you know essentially nothing.

I try not to pontificate on subject matters like quantum mechanics and C++ that I am not competent to opine on.

I’m not pontificating about what will happen, I’m asking why you believed Trump would immediately be sprung. You haven’t answered that, and I’m still interested, Part of the whole ipse dixit business is actually dixitting, you know….

As a courtesy, I offered some possibilities to 1) make it easier for you to say, “yeah, that one”, or 2) lets you pick one which demonstrates the category error I’m making through lack of basic knowledge, and 3) tacitly giving you my general level of legal reasoning, knowledge of the law and basic court procedures.

If that doesn’t help, I won’t waste my time on it, and we can just exchange “that won’t happen” “yes it will” “no it won’t” until a couple weeks after the thread is over.

We interact from time to time. I am not a lawyer, I know nothing of courtroom procedure, and little of statutory and case law. I have some background in managing inter-organization cooperation, and quickly discovered I was going to the bar after work with the lawyers: they were natural allies, and even if I couldn’t draft contracts, I was OK at issue-spotting reading them.

It’s not your job to teach me and the forum the law. I’m busy, you’re busy. I’m still earnestly interested in why you said what you did; if would take six paragraphs to explain my error, I can see why you’d pass. But I don’t understand why you’d make the naked assertion without even four words of Latin, or mentioning some mono-named case law. Just saying “it won’t work” means nobody learns anything, except “somebody with the handle txlawyer says it’s hopeless, give up.”

I am particularly unhappy when politicians in my coalition refuse to embark on legal and well-precedented action by just saying “we will not support action X because nobody’s done it in 60 years; it’s hopeless.” I think that’s the nerve you hit, indirectly. My problem, not yours.