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Waiting With Great Interest I find it fascinating how DOJ maneuvered Trump into a position where he has no choice but to discuss the classification/declassification question in open court. That filing deadline is 10am today. I am eager to see what Trump's lawyers say about this on the public...

Trump is a private citizen now and will be after he files to be a candidate for president. He gains zero special status by filing to be president. If DOJ was concerned about Trumps special status, or if they assigned any special status to Trump by virtue of him being a former president, they...

More About Trump Being Forced to Discuss Classification Status in Open Court Trump has avoided the question (are docs classified or declassified?) in court. That ends tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how Trump's lawyers respond. Much hinges on the answer. It appears DOJ backed Judge...

Two Developments 1. Today, DOJ gave notice of its intent to appeal Judge Cannon's ruling. 2. Late this evening, Judge Cannon responded to that filing. She ordered both parties to have statements ready about one of the points DOJ raised today. Details are sketchy as the reporting is early, but...

That's not quite correct. 1. If you read the hearing transcript, you'll see a place where DOJ agreed to release unseal the status of the Privilege Review Team's filter review that it filed with the court last week. But Trump's lawyers have opposed it -- and rather than suggest specific...

Now we know. DOJ appealed Judge Cannon's ruling today.

While it's tempting to dive in to debate your points, we don't even know if DOJ will appeal the ruling yet. It has not even been a full business day since the ruling was issued. I have found the DOJ filings to be very informative so I'm waiting to see if another will be filed soon. The photo...

You have no idea who the witnesses are. No one in the general public does. That information has not yet been released.

You can invent any number of scenarios in which the "case is going to go up in smoke," as you put it. But to meaningful, they must correspond to reality. At present, no case is going up in smoke. Trump has not sought to have the search declared illegal. Trump has not succeeded in stopping the...

For now, yes. The judge ruled in Trump's favor. Now we wait to see if DOJ will appeal and if it does, what that result will be. If DOJ does not appeal, the investigation will continue as before, except for the new rules that now apply to the items seized in the Mar-a-Lago search. If DOJ does...

Thank you for the data. I stand corrected.

Now we know the judge is working over the long weekend. She issued her ruling today, Labor Day.

Trump usually loses in court. Even when he appeals cases to the U.S. Supreme Court, where there is a conservative majority of justices and three of them were appointed by Trump himself, he loses there too. Why do you think that is?

What Do You Think About This Unimportant Question? The answers don't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I find myself wondering. What do you think? Is Judge Cannon taking the Labor Day weekend off before she returns to chambers to work on and/or issue her ruling in Donald J. Trump v...

No, they were not declassified. If they were declassified, that fact would be properly documented and easily discernible, as happens with every other document that gets properly declassified.

Maybe after he is indicted. But it is not to his advantage to wait. Investigators continue to develop cases against him and he's doing nothing more than requesting a special master and raging about the injustice of it all in public. And about that raging, Trump would be 100% correct about the...

I do not want Trump back. So, no, it's not true that everyone wants Trump back.

It's refreshing to see you admit that Trump is no longer the president of the United States. There are a lot of people out there who think he still is.

Let's grant, muttly, for the purposes of discussion, that what you say above is true. If this is true, why has Trump not challenged the legality of the search in court? Why has he not tried to have the investigation stopped on that basis? Why has Trump not brought the court cases you mention to...

I'd have to go back to double check, but I don't think Trump has asked any court to declare the search warrant and the search unlawful. Trump likes to manipulate his supporters into believing a lot that is untrue. In his public statements, he has often said the search is unlawful. But in...