Thank you Captain Obvious

[winetourdriver01]

Read more:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/03/02/doj-says-inciting-a-riot-is-not-part-of-the-presidents-job-description/

[onecaliberal]

1. Whatever it is, it must be completely legal.

[malaise]

2. Nor is orchestrating a coup

Justice is coming

[uponit7771]

5. +1, ... there are too many in US government who don't want to call J6 this exact thing; a coup.

[ancianita]

3. We're not the audience. The Stupids are, and all their lawyers who made the claim to begin with.

This is for the Stupids still in our country who aid and abet Trump and the Jan 6 coup stupids who now call themselves political prisoners.

Just to be clear.

[Bev54]

6. This was the for the courts actually in an amicus filing by DOJ for the lawsuits from

Swalwell and others, as well as capitol police suing Trump

[ancianita]

7. Cool. I didn't read the link, so the "captain obvious" sounded provocative,

as if we all know that, when most of us really haven't until lately, even more so, because, who reads amicus filings, right?

The DOJ offers a wealth of legal education.

[Beastly Boy]

4. It wasn't a casual conversation over a glass of wine.

When Trump appealed Amit Mehta’s ruling that he could be sued for his role in setting off an attack on January 6, Trump said he had absolute immunity from being held accountable for his role in the attack.

The DC Circuit asked DOJ what they thought about that claim.

DOJ has now responded in an amicus filing.

It was an amicus brief ordered by the Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.38510/gov.uscourts.cadc.38510.1218479228.0.pdf