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What Trump's Lawyers Are NOT Saying Tells Us Everything (Original Post)
discocrisco01
Sep 2022
OP
Are these lawyers willing to sign that Trump has no more classified material?
keithbvadu2
Sep 2022
#2
Justice Department Files Response to TFGs Opposition to Government's Motion for Partial Stay
LetMyPeopleVote
Sep 2022
#3
soldierant
(6,846 posts)1. It also doesn't matter.
None of the statutes cited in the warranr require the documents to be classifie in order for his actins to be illegal. He is equally guilty wheter all, some, or no documents were classified.
Of course, the thought that importnt secrets were in ther (and I say "were" advisedly, thinking of those empty folders) scares the bejeezus out of people, me included.
keithbvadu2
(36,742 posts)2. Are these lawyers willing to sign that Trump has no more classified material?
Are these lawyers willing to sign that Trump has no more classified material?
That did not turn out to be truthful last time.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,079 posts)3. Justice Department Files Response to TFGs Opposition to Government's Motion for Partial Stay
I love good legal writing. This response was well done and made me smile. The DOJ destroyed the rather feeble attempts at arguments made by TFG's attorneys.
Link to tweet
https://www.lawfareblog.com/justice-department-files-response-trumps-opposition-governments-motion-partial-stay-cannon-ruling
On Sept. 13, the Justice Department filed a reply in the ongoing litigation over the government's motion for partial stay of U.S District Judge Aileen Cannon's Sept. 5 order, which had granted former President Trumps request for a special master and had further enjoined the government from reviewing and using materials seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence for "investigative purposes." In its motion, the government had requested that Cannon stay her order only as it relates to seized documents that are marked as classified. (Trump filed his response to the government's motion only yesterday.)
In its reply, the Justice Department argued that Trump cannot plausibly establish a property interest in the classified documents, as would be necessary for the court to exercise equitable jurisdiction. It further argued that Trump cannot plausibly assert either attorney-client or executive privilege over the classified documents. Finally, it argued that without a stay, the government and the public would suffer irreparable harm, whereas Trump had failed to prove that he would suffer any cognizable harm at all.
In its reply, the Justice Department argued that Trump cannot plausibly establish a property interest in the classified documents, as would be necessary for the court to exercise equitable jurisdiction. It further argued that Trump cannot plausibly assert either attorney-client or executive privilege over the classified documents. Finally, it argued that without a stay, the government and the public would suffer irreparable harm, whereas Trump had failed to prove that he would suffer any cognizable harm at all.
There is a link to the opinion on this tweet
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