All The Day That’s Fit To Tweet 🐥

It’s fascinating — if entirely unsurprising — that the Fifth Circuit seems wholly untroubled by the fact that #SCOTUS already *blocked* this same law from going into effect (after the Fifth Circuit in May had stayed a district court injunction). https://t.co/1gV1oEMWRI

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) September 16, 2022

10/10. No notes. https://t.co/fU4Dm8mygx

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) September 17, 2022

The good news is that it’s not long for this world. #SCOTUS has already blocked #HB20, and the circuit split with the 11th Circuit will almost surely be resolved in the latter’s favor.

The bad news is that it’s not an outlier; it’s emblematic of what this court does every day. https://t.co/zgoZLUghoc

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) September 16, 2022

The Republicans who are transporting migrants across the country under false pretenses get very offended when you call them fascists

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2022

“Most of them were intending to come to Florida” — DeSantis pic.twitter.com/L9ChsbgllG

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 16, 2022

Sounds defensive to me. I don’t think spelling his name right is working for him.

You are actually obligated to display all of the hot takes you’re sent, sir, failing to do so is an illegal editorial censorship decision or whatever https://t.co/n7wuauZMKf

— Daniel A. Horwitz (@danielahorwitz) September 17, 2022

What would we do without the internet?  Hoot and throw rocks at each other, I guess. 🪨 

And because the day isn’t over without a new court fight:

DOJ's filing is an unsparing rejection of Cannon's handling of the entire matter, saying it has jeopardized natioanl security, is based on flimsy or baseless interpretations of executive privilege and the role of the courts and could enable obstruction.https://t.co/zkgFg7FHC4

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 17, 2022

“The court’s order hamstrings that investigation and places the FBI and Department of Justice … under a Damoclean threat of contempt,” DOJ lawyers said in their 29-page filing, adding, “It also irreparably harms the government by enjoining critical steps of an ongoing criminal investigation and needlessly compelling disclosure of highly sensitive records, including to [Trump’s] counsel.”

DOJ reiterates: Trump has never, not once, told a court he declassified anything, asserted executive privilege or designated any records as his personal property.

Yet Cannon granted his demands based on "unsubstantiated possibilities" that he *might* have https://t.co/zkgFg7FHC4 pic.twitter.com/R8QkZ3WYvO

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 17, 2022

"That's not how any of this works!" Well, maybe it would in the 5th Circuit.  

At least the DOJ didn’t waste any time. It’s almost like they expected to need to appeal.