Saturday, October 15, 2022

And Merrick Garland Is Neville Chamberlain?

Yeah, I'm not seeing that.

"Former President Donald J. Trump is mimicking Munich by leveraging claims to things that aren’t his (America’s national secrets) against something which does not belong to him (the public order, which he threatens to overturn). On October 8, the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt reported that in 2021, Trump sought to negotiate a deal with the National Archives by which he would return presidential documents (including some marked 'top secret') that he had spirited away to his beachfront resort at Mar-a-Lago," they wrote. "Neither the documents he had stashed at his resort nor those he sought from the Archives belong to him."

Slight problem with this "legal analysis."  No lawyer representing Trump has come close to making those arguments in court.  Trump is screaming them to his dead-head followers at rallies.  He's not winning hearts and minds with them, nor is Garland ceding Czechoslovakia (or Florida, for that matter) to Trump's control.

And no court, from the Supremes down, save for Judge Cannon, has found any merit in Trump's real legal arguments.  In fact, the 11th Circuit may soon dismiss that case altogether.  Right, Professor Tribe? 

Prosecution rests, your honor.
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