Even with a legal background, I can't keep my eyes from crossing. Thanks so much for the additional detail. I think I at least get the basic understanding now.
I can't imagine finding a better place to remove much of my daily "WTAF!?" reactions in trying to follow the courts' actions than in reading your concise, well-written and easy for a non-lawyer to understand reports.
Trump judges, it seems, have codified his delay-delay-delay tactic as “proper” judicial behavior … easier than actually presenting case citations, I guess.
The two GOP judges... couldn't agree on the reason for the mandamus, and by extension don't really have an instruction to send back down because they viewed the original order from Boasberg as "not appealable", just a "boo. nerd. you suck." note so the majority of the rest of the DC circuit (minus one judge) decided that since the mandamus both didn't instruct to do anything and couldn't be held as precedent, that they were just like "fine we know you hate him whatever let's just send it back so it can keep proceeding"?
It sounds like... bullying? It sounds like those two judges were like "We can't actually *do* anything about it but fuck your face anyway"???
Do I have that right? Could I have that right? I'm so confused.
So... The majority thinks that the contempt was valid but that future findings of contempt are more likely to pass if considered by a hopefully different bench of 3 than if they'd all stepped in and given the SC an opening?....??
Thank you, Chris, for making a bit more explicable, the inexplicable. It seems some of the effing courts tie themselves in ridiculous knots trying to deal with Trump.
Even with a legal background, I can't keep my eyes from crossing. Thanks so much for the additional detail. I think I at least get the basic understanding now.
This makes me ashamed to be a lawyer.
How can anyone defend this steaming horseshit?
Very convoluted.
Real consequences are not in place yet, but there is a possibility that it has been left open. Cheers.
I am so happy to be a subscriber to your blog.
I can't imagine finding a better place to remove much of my daily "WTAF!?" reactions in trying to follow the courts' actions than in reading your concise, well-written and easy for a non-lawyer to understand reports.
Thank you for your fine reporting.
The wheels of Justice grind slow. We’ll see if they grind “exceeding fine.”
I don't know how the Republic survives these judges that think the law is an instrument for Trump to achieve his aims instead of a process.
Agree with sunbirdie—an excellent job of making “sense” of this messy finger painting.
Trump judges, it seems, have codified his delay-delay-delay tactic as “proper” judicial behavior … easier than actually presenting case citations, I guess.
The things mere judges will do
To avoid Rogue SCOTUS review!
Okay so as I understand it...
The two GOP judges... couldn't agree on the reason for the mandamus, and by extension don't really have an instruction to send back down because they viewed the original order from Boasberg as "not appealable", just a "boo. nerd. you suck." note so the majority of the rest of the DC circuit (minus one judge) decided that since the mandamus both didn't instruct to do anything and couldn't be held as precedent, that they were just like "fine we know you hate him whatever let's just send it back so it can keep proceeding"?
It sounds like... bullying? It sounds like those two judges were like "We can't actually *do* anything about it but fuck your face anyway"???
Do I have that right? Could I have that right? I'm so confused.
So... The majority thinks that the contempt was valid but that future findings of contempt are more likely to pass if considered by a hopefully different bench of 3 than if they'd all stepped in and given the SC an opening?....??
The Trump appointees look bad. They don't care. If they did, they would have allowed the case to play out. This is where we are it seems.
Thank you, Chris, for making a bit more explicable, the inexplicable. It seems some of the effing courts tie themselves in ridiculous knots trying to deal with Trump.