Harm
Donald Trump’s lawyers are causing “irreparable harm” to the government and public by delaying the investigation into his hoarding of highly classified documents at his Florida mansion, the US Department of Justice said.
Trump and his lawyers of course couldn’t possibly care less. Causing harm is Trump’s raison d’être.
The claim came in a strongly worded court filing urging a district judge, Aileen Cannon, to reconsider her ruling last week granting Trump’s request for an independent “special master” in the case.
Any bets? No, nobody is going to throw their money away on that one.
They are exhausting trial court remedies before taking a writ to the Court of Appeals.
On closer inspection, the “DOJ filing” is a motion for partial stay of the district court’s order, pending an appeal. DOJ plans to appeal the ruling if stay is not granted. The DOJ asserts its great confidence that they will win on appeal.
Right, the notice of appeal was filed last week I believe. DOJ is asking the trial court for a stay pending that appeal, and if that’s not granted it will presumably ask the 11th Circuit for a stay.
I don’t know anything about the special master nominees.