'This is a very specific and narrow request by Trump the merits of which turn on a technical jurisdictional question, but which runs into fatal procedural obstacles long before that,' said one analyst. 'It's not laughable, but only because it's small.'
The expert added that"this is what good lawyers who are stuck do to appease bad clients: The jurisdictional argument is narrow, technical, and nonfrivolous. It's a way of filing"That point reinforces the big takeaway: This is a very specific and narrow request by Trump the merits of which turn on a technical jurisdictional question, but which runs into fatal procedural obstacles long before that. It's not laughable, but only because it's small," he said.
The twice-impeached ex-president"has had decidedly mixed success in earlier efforts to keep his presidential and business records from law enforcement officials and congressional investigators,"In January, the Supreme Court refused his request to block the release of White House records held by the National Archives concerning the January 6 attack on the Capitol, effectively rejecting his claim of executive privilege. The court let stand an appeals court ruling that Mr.
Only Justice Clarence Thomas noted a dissent. It later emerged that his wife, Virginia Thomas, had sent a barrage of text messages to the Trump White House urging efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Experts in legal ethics said that Justice Thomas's connection to the case should have prompted him to disqualify himself from it.
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