Swift Ruling Tests Trump's Tactic of Running Out the Clock

[Zorro]

The former president has leveraged the slow judicial process in the past to thwart congressional oversight, but the Jan. 6 case may be different.

WASHINGTON — On the surface, a judge’s ruling on Tuesday night that Congress can obtain Trump White House files related to the Jan. 6 riot seemed to echo another high-profile ruling in November 2019. In the earlier matter, a judge said a former White House counsel must testify about then-President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to obstruct the Russia investigation.

In both cases, Democratic-controlled House oversight committees issued subpoenas, Mr. Trump sought to stonewall those efforts by invoking constitutional secrecy powers, and Obama-appointed Federal District Court judges — to liberal cheers — ruled against him. Each ruling even made the same catchy declaration: “presidents are not kings.”

But there was a big difference: The White House counsel case two years ago had chewed up three and a half months by the time Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a 120-page opinion to end its first stage. Just 23 days elapsed between Mr. Trump’s filing of the Jan. 6 papers lawsuit and Judge Tanya Chutkan’s ruling against him.

The case, which raises novel issues about the scope of executive privilege when asserted by a former president, is not over: Mr. Trump is asking an appeals court to overturn Judge Chutkan’s ruling and, in the interim, to block the National Archives from giving Congress the first set of files on Friday. The litigation appears destined to reach the Supreme Court, which Mr. Trump reshaped with three appointments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/us/politics/swift-ruling-tests-trump-delay-tactic.html

[wryter2000]

1. This is what we need

He counts on things being held up in courts for months. If he only gets a few weeks, he runs out of obstruction. Jill Wine-Banks has noted that things moved much faster during Nixon, that US v. Nixon only took the Supreme Court a couple of months. IIRC.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Can he try to appeal the ruling?

[bpj62]

3. Yes

Trumps attorney has already said that they will appeal the ruling. In the meantime the National Archives will begin turning over the requested documents on Friday. Trumps attorney will attempt to get a stay order that would prohibit the Archives from turning over the documents while the lower decision is under appeal. Fortunately the federal judges in DC recognize the urgency of this matter. This issue will get to Supreme Court very quickly.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Good info, thanks!

[FarPoint]

5. Are we sure there is juice data there to hopefully convict tRump?

I hope there is some good evidence....just saying...these delay tactics have been tRumps survivor technique.